 The body in the mind, the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason.
Author: Johnson, Mark Published: 1987 An exploration of the ways that meaning, understanding, and rationality arise from and are conditioned by the patterns of our bodily experience. In emphasising the body, Mark Johnson rightly points out the inadequacies of objectivist philosophy in its rigid separation of mind from body, cognition from emotion, and reason from imagination. He develops a theory of how imagination links cognitive and bodily structures, showing that such basic concepts as balance, scale, force and cycles emerge from our physical experiences and can be metaphorically extended to express abstract meaning and rational connections. |
