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A groundbreaking new way of thinking about how we generate meaning through our bodies and our phsyical encounters with the world

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.

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Title The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Author Mark Johnson
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 326
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
Publication date August 1, 2007
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780226401928 / 0226401928
Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.06 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.69 cm)
Category Philosophy
Library of Congress subjects Aesthetics, Meaning (Philosophy)
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006100532
Dewey Decimal Code 121.68

About the author

Mark Johnson is the Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason and Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics and coauthor, with George Lakoff, of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought.

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