Beyond Words

With its unprecedented wealth of images and videos, the digital world poses a completely new challenge to the entire educational system, in particular to higher education. In what sense can we speak of a visual liberation, a visual homecoming? To what extent are images autonomous carriers of meaning, what does a logic of images amount to?

András Benedek is Professor and Head at the Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has published several papers on human resource development issues. Kristóf Nyíri is Professor of Philosophy at the same Department. His main fields of research are the philosophy of images and the philosophy of time.

Contents: András Benedek: Preface – Philipp Stoellger: Living Images and Images We Live By. What Does It Mean to Become a Living Image? – Zoltán Kövecses: Metaphor and Parable – Mohsen Bakhtiar: Metaphorical Eternity in Action. The Nonlinguistic Realization of Death Metaphors in Iranian Culture – Karolina Golinowska: The Art of Memory Politics: Visual Learning - Visual Resisting – Tobias Schöttler: The Iconic Surplus in Visual Arguments: Where Limitations and Potentials Coincide – Lieven Vandelanotte: «More Than One Way at Once». Simultaneous Viewpoints in Text and Image – Matthew Crippen: Pictures, Experiential Learning and Phenomenology – Zsuzsanna Kondor: Do We Have a Visual Mind? – Jelena Issajeva: Mental Imagery as a Sign System – Irma Puškarevi?/Uroš Nedeljkovi?: The Semiotics of Images: Photographic Conventions in Advertising – András G. Benedek: Augmenting Conceptualization by Visual Knowledge Organization – Ágnes Veszelszki: Emoticons vs. Reaction-Gifs. Non-Verbal Communication on the Internet from the Aspects of Visuality, Verbality and Time – Andrea Balogh/Zsolt Szántó: The Changing Appearance of Text and Images on Online Interfaces – György Molnár/Zoltán Sz?ts: Visual Learning - Picture and Memory in Virtual Worlds – Petra Aczél: Ingenious Rhetoric: The Visual Secret of Rhetoricality – Eszter Deli: Media Argumentation: A Novel Approach to Television Rhetoric and the Power of the News – Gabriella Németh: Paradoxical Representation of Tropes in Visual Rhetoric – Gábor Forgács: Visual Rhetoric Used in Mapping Natural Language Arguments – Paul Boghossian: Seemings: Sensory and Intellectual – Mojca Küplen: Cognitive Function of Beauty and Ugliness in Light of Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Ideas – Andrija Šo?: Kant’s Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience – Monika Jovanovi?: The Thread and the Chain. «Family Resemblances» and the Possibility of Non-Essentialist Conceptual Structure – Kristóf Nyíri: Wittgenstein and Common-Sense Philosophy.