In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work
on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and
meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. Johnson uses
recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates
meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there
he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily
origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many
dimensions of meaning—including images, qualities, emotions, and
metaphors—that are all rooted in the body’s physical encounters
with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist
philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making
are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the
culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the
aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking
meaning's bodily sources. Throughout, Johnson
puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the
understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if
it is built on a visceral connection to the world. “Mark Johnson
demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are
fundamental—central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the
arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were
raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and
reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most
visceral experience.”—George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics
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ISBN
9780226026992
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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