The meaning of the body aesthetics of human understanding /

Johnson, Mark L. (1949-....)

The meaning of the body aesthetics of human understanding / [Texte imprimé] : Mark Johnson - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 - 1 vol. (xvii-308 p., 2 p. de pl.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Index

Bibliogr. p. [285]-295

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.

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Meaning (Philosophy) Human body (Philosophy) Aesthetics.

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