The Body in the Mind - Mark Johnson
the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason
KORTE INHOUD
'The body in the mind' explores the way that meaning, understanding, and rationality arise from and are conditioned by the patterns of our bodily experience. In emphazing the body, Mark Johnson points out the inadequacies of objectivist philosophy in its rigid separation of mind from body, cognition from emotion, and reason from imagination. He develops a theory of how imagination links cognitive an bodily structures, showing that such basic concepts as balance, scale, force and cycles emerge from our physical experiences and can be metaphorially extended to express abstract meaning and rational connections.
"There are books - few and far between - which carefully, delightfully, and genuinly turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us an radically new account of meaning, rationality, and obkectivity."
(Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle)
"An outstanding contribution to contemporary cognitive science."
(Jane...
"There are books - few and far between - which carefully, delightfully, and genuinly turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us an radically new account of meaning, rationality, and obkectivity."
(Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle)
"An outstanding contribution to contemporary cognitive science."
(Jane...
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