Meaning of the Body Aesthetics of Human Understanding

Name: Meaning of the Body Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Price: 17.11 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226401935

ISBN-10: 0226401936

ISBN-13: 9780226401935

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark Johnson

List price: $31.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $31.08

Marketplace

5 new & used from $17.11

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

InThe Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classicMetaphors We Live By. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaningincluding images, qualities, emotions, and metaphorsthat are all rooted in the body's physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Contents


Preface: The Need for an Aesthetics of Human Meaning


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Meaning Is More than Words and Deeper than Concepts



Bodily Meaning and Felt Sense



The Movement of Life



Big Babies



“Since Feeling Is First”: Emotional Dimensions of Meaning



The Grounding of Meaning in the Qualities of Life



Feeling William James’s “But”: The Aesthetics of Reasoning and Logic



Embodied Meaning and the Sciences of Mind



The Origin of Meaning in Organism-Environment Coupling: A Nonrepresentational View of Mind



The Corporeal Roots of Symbolic Meaning



The Brain’s Role in Meaning



From Embodied Meaning to Abstract Thought



Embodied Meaning, Aesthetics, and Art



Art as an Exemplar of Meaning-Making



Music and the Flow of Meaning



The Meaning of the Body


References


Index