Author

Publication

2007 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

Language

English

Word Count

77,000 words, Guess

Page Count

308 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCB

Description

"In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson examines the nature of human meaning - where it comes from and how it is made. He goes beyond his earlier pioneering work, begun in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, to explore the deepest sources of human understanding, which lie in feelings, emotions, qualities, and patterns of bodily perception and motion. Philosophers have traditionally ignored these aspects of embodied meaning, focusing instead on more superficial conceptual and propositional structures. Johnson argues that overlooking these profound dimensions of meaning has left much contemporary philosophy of language and mind out of touch with new research - in cognitive science, psychology, and art - that shows how meaning is possible for embodied human minds."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • The meaning of the body: aesthetics of human understandingUniversity of Chicago Press2007-01-01

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