
The Primacy of Movement
Expanded second edition
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
2nd Edition
Published on 6. July 2011
Book
Hardback
574 pages
978-90-272-5218-0 (ISBN)
Description
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point, elucidating it within both an enactive and qualitative affective-kinetic dynamic. It follows through with a thoroughgoing interdisciplinary inquiry into movement from three perspectives: mind, brain, and the conceptually reciprocal realities of receptivity and responsivity as set forth in phenomenology and evolutionary biology, respectively. It ends with a substantive afterword on kinesthesia, pointing up the incontrovertible significance of the faculty to cognition and affectivity. Series A
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
1250 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5218-0 (9789027252180)
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Content
1. Preface to the expanded second edition; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction; 4. Section I. Foundations chapter; 5. 1. Neandertals; 6. 2 - Part I. Consciousness: A natural history; 7. 2 - Part II. Consciousness: An Aristotelian account; 8. 3. The primacy of movement; 9. Section II. Methodology; 10. 4. Husserl and Von Helmholtz - and the possibility of a trans disciplinary communal task; 11. 5. On learning to move oneself: A constructive phenomenology; 12. 6. Merleau-Ponty: A man in search of a method; 13. 7. Does philosophy begin (and end) in wonder? or what is the nature of a philosophic act?: A methodological postscript; 14. Section III. Applications; 15. 8. On the significance of animate form; 16. 9. Human speech perception and an evolutionary semantics; 17. 10. Why a mind is not a brain and a brain is not a body; 18. 11. What is it like to be a brain?; 19. 12. Thinking in movement; 20. Section IV. Twenty-first century reflections on human nature: Foundational concepts and realities; 21. 13. Animation: the fundamental, essential, and properly descriptive concept; 22. 14. Embodied minds or mindful bodies?: A core twenty-first century challenge; 23. References; 24. Name index