The Primacy of Movement
<strong>Expanded second edition</strong>
2nd Edition
Published on 6. July 2011
XXXII, 574 pages
978-90-272-8677-2 (ISBN)
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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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Content
- The Primacy of Movement
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- Preface to the expanded second edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes
- SECTION I Foundations
- Neandertals
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Remarkable mental adaptations"
- 3. Symbolic behavior"
- 4. Deepened understandings of the symbolic
- 5. Animate form: Theoretical clarifications
- 6. Animate form: Neandertals
- Notes
- Part I Consciousness: A natural history
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Reasons for critically questioning the question
- 3. Life and its definitions: A question of animation and justification
- 4. Corporeal consciousness: A matter of knowing
- 5. To the things themselves: Corporeal matters of fact20
- 6. From corporeal matters of fact to corporeal consciousness
- 7. Implications
- Glossary
- Notes
- Part II Consciousness: An Aristotelian account
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Burnyeat's claim and its initial Aristotelian rejoinder
- 3. Uniformity
- 4. Receiving the form without the matter
- 5. Excursus I: On the relationship of form and matter
- 6. On the way to an understanding of quality: Clearing the ground
- 7. Excursus II: The aesthetics of quality
- 8. The coincidence of form and quality in everyday life
- 9. The semantics of quality: A natural history of form
- Notes
- The primacy of movement
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Animate organism
- 3. Kinesthesia
- 4. Cardinal structures of kinesthetic consciousness
- 5. A descriptive analysis of movement and a further clarification of kinesthesia
- 6. Kinesthetic consciousness and the primordial constitution of time
- 7. The cardinal structure of time
- 8. Afterword
- Notes
- SECTION II. Methodology
- Husserl and Von Helmholtz - and the possibility of a trans disciplinary communal task
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the central significance of movement in perception
- 3. A brief exposition of the phenomenological epoché
- 4. A methodological contrast
- 5. The central epistemological significance of freely-varied movement
- 6. On factual and essential matters
- 7. On the epistemological import of the confluences: A critical look at cognitivist science and philosophy
- 8. An alternative approach
- Notes
- On learning to move oneself: A constructive phenomenology
- 1. Initial remarks
- 2. A general introduction to the terrain
- 3. Beginning phenomenological considerations
- 4. Primal movement and its occlusion by a natural attitude view of movement
- 5. Methodological clarifications for a constructive phenomenology
- 6. A constructive phenomenology of animation
- Notes
- Merleau-Ponty: A man in search of a method
- 1. Initial clarification
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Pathology
- 4. Facts
- 5. A fundamental liability of a fact-based ontological methodology
- 6. Methodological muddles and opacities
- 7. Methodology in Merleau-Ponty's earlier and later work
- 8. The unresolved tension between nature and ontology
- 9. Tentative conclusions
- 10. Optional epilogue
- Notes
- Does philosophy begin (and end) in wonder? or what is the nature of a philosophic act?
- 1. Introduction and initial gleanings
- 2. A distinction
- 3. Freedom and risks
- Note
- SECTION III. Applications
- On the significance of animate form
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Framing the questions anew
- 3. The animate is not arbitrary - or the semantic specificity of living bodies
- 4. A sketch of the evil eye as a derived archetypal form
- 5. The fundamental challenge of animate form and its lexical-conceptual consequence as exemplified in two critical analyses
- Notes
- Human speech perception and an evolutionary semantics
- 1. The motor theory of speech perception
- 2. Expanding upon the critique
- 3. Comsigns and tactical deception
- 4. Challenging counter evidence
- 5. On the evolution of an evolutionary semantics
- Notes
- Why a mind is not a brain and a brain is not a body
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Minds and language
- 3. The radical doctrine of eliminative materialism
- 4. Dressing up: The broader eliminative-materialist picture
- 5. Pause-for-thought problems with neurological mecca
- 6. From problems with neurological mecca to the question "what is it like?"
- 7. Zeroing in on why a mind is not a brain and a brain is not a body
- 8. How by exchanging brain technology for history we give ourselves the one-two punch
- Notes
- What is it like to be a brain?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Beginning findings
- 3. Neural firing: A phenomenological inquiry
- 4. Distinguishing information and ability
- 5. Animism
- 6. Reversing materialist charges
- Notes
- Thinking in movement
- 1. The twofold purpose
- 2. Dance improvisation: A paradigm of thinking in movement
- 3. Thinking in movement: Our human developmental background
- 4. Thinking in movement: Our phylogenetic heritage
- 5. Summation
- Notes
- SECTION IV. Twenty-first century reflections on human nature: Foundational concepts and realities
- Animation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Basic realities of affectivity
- 3. Primal animation
- 4. Enactive resistances and their biological refutations
- 5. Further reflections on animation
- 6. Animation and Current Scientific Research on The Brain
- 7. Animate organisms, affectivity, and the challenge of languaging experience
- 8. Concluding thoughts on the importance of recognizing and languaging the qualitative dynamics of life
- Notes
- Embodied Minds or Mindful Bodies?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mind
- 3. The Brain
- 4. Receptivity and responsivity: Reciprocal concepts in phenomenology and evolutionary biology
- 5. Afterword on Kinesthesia
- Notes
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
