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The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Mark Johnson
The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Mark Johnson
Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". This work concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources.
276 pages, 2 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 4 figures, 6 musical examples
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 15, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780226401935 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 328 |
Dimensions | 152 × 227 × 19 mm · 474 g |
Language | English |
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