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Publication details [#25081]

Johnson, Mark. 1987. The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. University of Chicago Press. xxxviii + 233 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | image | meaning | reasoning

Annotation

This book argues that image-schemata, modeled upon acquired bodily experiences, constitute meaning-structures themselves, and allow a more direct comprehension of meaning than the propositional logic that especially philosophers use at this point.

Reviewed by

Wagner, Roy. 1990. Review of $The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason.

Romaine, Suzanne. 1990. Review of $The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason.

Keller, Janet. 1988. Review of M.Johnson (1987: `The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason').