What is nonsense How has it permeated our daytoday speech and thought processes in order to become a vital part of the way we interpret the world InampampnbspNecessary Nonsense Aesthetics History Neurology Psychology worldrenowned expert Irving Massey commits nearly forty years of scholarly musings on the topic of nonsense to the page. Employing a writing style of overlap repetition discontinuity and contradiction in order to describe the history and of grammatical philosophical and semantic nonsense Massey opens his readers to the cognitive possibilities of accepting nonsense as a fundamental human feature. ampampnbsp InampampnbspNecessary Nonsense Massey explores a range of literary and philosophical subjects from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carrollparsing the ways in which nonsense permeates their writing and dialecticsincluding an exploration of the inability of those who suffer from Aspergers syndrome to distinguish between metaphor and nonsense and an investigation of the neural signature of the nonsense words and phrases that occur during the transition from waking to sleep.ampampnbspMassey argues that while nonsense may be the archenemy of reason it is also tied to the intrinsic nature of reason the two simply put cannot exist without each other. Through a stunning array of exploratory topics Massey concludes that we all live under a canopy of nonsense. ampampnbsp ampampnbsp