Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Editors

John Michael Krois | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Mats Rosengren | Göteborg University

Angela Steidele | Cologne

Dirk Westerkamp | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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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 science, religious studies, philosophy, biology, and cognitive science. The topics include the biological genesis of teleology, the dependence of meaning in signs upon biological embodiment, the notion of image schema and the concept of force in cognitive semantics, pictorial self-portraiture as a means to study self-perception, the difference between reading aloud and silent reading as a way to make sense of literary texts, intermodal (kinesthetic) understanding of art, psychosomatic medicine, laughter as a medical and ethical phenomenon, the valuation of laughter and the body in religion, and how embodied cognition revives and extends earlier attempts to develop a philosophical anthropology. (Series A)

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 71] 2007. xxii, 304 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.71

Table of Contents

Preface | p. xi

Introduction | pp. xiii–xxii

Part I: Systems

The physical origins of purposive systems

Terrance Deacon and Jeremy Sherman | pp. 3–25

The extensions of man revisited: From primary to tertiary embodiment

Göran Sonesson | pp. 27–53

Part II: Images

Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces

Peter Gärdenfors | pp. 57–76

Feeling embodied in vision: The imagery of self-perception without mirrors

Karl Clausberg | pp. 77–103

Part III: Form

The body of Susanne K. Langer's Mind

Cornelia Richter | pp. 107–125

Is content embodied form?

Sven-Eric Liedman | pp. 127–140

Part IV: Rhythm

Reading with the body: Sound, rhythm, and music in Gertrude Stein

Angela Steidele | pp. 143–163

Work, rhythm, dance: Prerequisites for a kinaesthetics of media and arts

Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus | pp. 165–181

Part V: Therapy

Body, mind and psychosomatic medicine

Gerhard Danzer | pp. 185–193

What does laughter embody?

Brian Poole | pp. 195–218

Part VI: Catharsis

Laughter, catharsis, and the patristic conception of embodied logos

Dirk Westerkamp | pp. 221–242

The Christian body as a grotesque body

Ola Sigurdson | pp. 243–258

Part VII: Symbolization

Radical imagination and symbolic pregnance: A Castoriadis-Cassirer connection

Mats Rosengren | pp. 261–272

Philosophical anthropology and the embodied cognition paradigm: On the convergence of two research programs

John Michael Krois | pp. 273–289

Notes on contributors | pp. 291–292

Contributors to "Embodiment in cognition and culture" | pp. 293–296

Name index | pp. 297–299

Subject index | pp. 301–304

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