The meaning of the body : aesthetics of human understanding /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Johnson, Mark, 1949-
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Θέματα: Έννοια (Φιλοσοφία); Αισθητική; Σώμα, Ανθρώπινο (Φιλοσοφία)

 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.