{"product_id":"the-ways-of-naysaying-no-not-nothing-and-nonbeing","title":"The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing","description":"No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will-sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the toddler's incessant no is another no, that of preventive command, and the great commandments of later life continue to be prohibitions: Nine of the Ten Commandments are in the negative. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now naysaying. If we want to understand something of imagination, memory and time, she argues, we must mount an inquiry into what it means to say something is not what it claims to be or is not there or is nonexistent or is affected by Nonbeing.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0742512282\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0742512282.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Brann, Eva\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43357937565757,"sku":"BVV.0742512282.G","price":67.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0742512282-0.jpg?v=1784241541","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-ways-of-naysaying-no-not-nothing-and-nonbeing","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}