The meaning of the body : aesthetics of human understanding / Mark Johnson.
- Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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xvii, 308 p., 2 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music ; 24 cm. - Online:
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006100532.html - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Meaning (Philosophy).
Human body (Philosophy).
Aesthetics. - Contents:
- Preface : the need for an aesthetics of human meaning
Introduction : meaning is more than words and deeper than concepts
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
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
Art as an exemplar of meaning-making
Music and the flow of meaning
The meaning of the body. - Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.
- OCLC:
- 76967201
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