This study explores how literary texts, particularly the works of Peter Weiss, engage the mind through language. It examines cognitive processes such as perception and memory in relation to literary meaning, drawing from literary studies, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive science to understand how texts become meaningful.
Human beings are cultural by nature. The human mind is as much the individual result of exquisite evolutionary engineering, as it is the outcome of an intense synergy with other minds in a densely social environment, shaped by culture. This realization encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue, in which scientists and humanists come together to discuss two challenges: studying culture in the age of cognitive science, and studying cognition with culture in mind.