Embodiment in cognition and culture / edited by John Michael Krois ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krois, John Michael.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; Series A, Theory and method v. 71.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition and culture.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

xxii, 304 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient cultural studies as well. The essays adapt and amplify embodied cognition in such different fields as art history, literature, history of science, religious studies, philosophy, biology, and cognitive science. The topics include the biological genesis of teleology, the dependence of meaning in signs upon biological embodiment, the notion of image schema and the concept of force in cognitive semantics, pictorial self-portraiture as a means to study self-perception, the difference between reading aloud and silent reading as a way to make sense of literary texts, intermodal (kinesthetic) understanding of art, psychosomatic medicine, laughter as a medical and ethical phenomenon, the valuation of laughter and the body in religion, and how embodied cognition revives and extends earlier attempts to develop a philosophical anthropology. (Series A).

Contents:

Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Systems

The physical origins of purposive systems

The extensions of man revisited

2. Images

Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces

Feeling embodied in vision

3. Form

The body of Susanne K. Langer's Mind

Is content embodied form?

4. Rhythm

Reading with the body

Work, rhythm, dance

5. Therapy

Body, mind, and psychosomatic medicine

What does laughter embody?

6. Catharsis

Laughter, catharsis, and the patristic conception of embodied logos

The Christian body as a grotesque body

7. Symbolization

Radical imagination and symbolic pregnance

Philosophical anthropology and the embodied cognition paradigm

Notes on contributors

Contributors to "Embodiment in cognition and culture" (current e-mail and preferred mailing addresses)

Name index

Subject index

The series Advances in Consciousness Research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612152849

9781282152847

128215284X

9789027292193

9027292191

OCLC:

232160018