The primacy of movement / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 14.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movement (Philosophy).

Movement, Psychology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (619 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into the significance of animation. It addresses methodological and foundational issues at length. In its detailed and extensive examinations and analyses of movement - which range from Aristotle's recognition of motion as the principle of nature to a critique of the common notion of movement as change of position, from critiques of present-day materialists' trivializations of movement as mere output to kinesthetically-tethered accounts of the qualia of movement, from expositions of an evolutionary semantics and of the tactile-kinesthetic body as generative source of corporeal concepts to expositions of thinking in movement and of the pan-human phenomenon of learning to move oneself - this book lays out in ground-breaking ways fundamental epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of animate life. (Series A).

Contents:

THE PRIMACY OF MOVEMENT

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1. Neandertals

Chapter 2 - Part I. Consciousness: A Natural History

Chapter 2 - Part II. Consciousness: An Aristotelian Account

Chapter 3. The Primacy of Movement

SECTION II: METHODOLOGY

Chapter 4. Husserl and Von Helmholtz - and the Possibility of a Trans-Disciplinary Communal Task

Chapter 5. On Learning to Move Oneself: A Constructive Phenomenology

Chapter 6. Merleau-Ponty: A Man in Search of a Method

Chapter 7. Does Philosophy Begin (and End) in Wonder? or What Is the Nature of a Philosophic Act?

SECTION III: APPLICATIONS

Chapter 8. On the Significance of Animate Form

Chapter 9. Human Speech Perception and an Evolutionary Semantics

Chapter 10. Why a Mind Is Not a Brain and a Brain Is Not a Body

Chapter 11. What Is It Like to Be a Brain?

Chapter 12. Thinking in Movement

References

Index of Subjects

Index of Names

the series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-547) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-16402-3

9786612164026

90-272-9998-6

OCLC:

70757889