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.