Embodiment in cognition and culture
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 s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Advances in consciousness research, Series A, Theory and method
v. 71. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798375406719 |
Table of Contents:
- Embodiment in Cognition and Culture
- Editorial page
- Title page
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- 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.
