Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
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"There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."—Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Context and Nature of This Study1. The Need for a Richer Account of Meaning and Reason2. The Emergence of Meaning through Schematic Structure3. Gestalt Structure as a Constraint on Meaning4. Metaphorical Projections of Image Schemata5. How Schemate Constrain Meaning, Understanding, and Rationality6. Toward a Theory of Imagination7. On the Nature of Meaning8. "All This, and Realism Too!"NotesIndex
