The meaning of the body :
Johnson, Mark, 1949-
The meaning of the body : aesthetics of human understanding / Mark Johnson. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xvii, 308 p., 2 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.
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.
9780226401928 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226401928 (cloth : alk. paper)
2006100532
Meaning (Philosophy)
Human body (Philosophy)
Aesthetics.
B105.M4 / J65 2007
121/.68
The meaning of the body : aesthetics of human understanding / Mark Johnson. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xvii, 308 p., 2 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.
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.
9780226401928 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226401928 (cloth : alk. paper)
2006100532
Meaning (Philosophy)
Human body (Philosophy)
Aesthetics.
B105.M4 / J65 2007
121/.68