Language, Philosophy of, Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
The Body in the Mind explores the ways that meaning, understanding, and rationality arise from and are conditioned by the patterns of our bodily experience. In emphasizing 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 and bodily structures, showing that such basic concepts as balance, scale, force, and cycles emerge from our physical experiences and can be metaphorically extended to express abstract mean and rational connections.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1987
Publisher
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Pages
234
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780226403175