The meaning of the body : aesthetics of human understanding / Mark Johnson.
"In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson examines the nature of human meaning - where it comes from and how it is made. He goes beyond his earlier pioneering work, begun in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, to explore the deepest sources of human understanding, which lie in feelin...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Summary: | "In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson examines the nature of human meaning - where it comes from and how it is made. He goes beyond his earlier pioneering work, begun in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, to explore the deepest sources of human understanding, which lie in feelings, emotions, qualities, and patterns of bodily perception and motion. Philosophers have traditionally ignored these aspects of embodied meaning, focusing instead on more superficial conceptual and propositional structures. Johnson argues that overlooking these profound dimensions of meaning has left much contemporary philosophy of language and mind out of touch with new research - in cognitive science, psychology, and art - that shows how meaning is possible for embodied human minds."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 308 pages, 2 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226401936 9780226401935 0226401928 9780226401928 |