Description
Summary: | Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into the significance of animation. It addresses methodological and foundational issues at length. In its detailed and extensive examinations and analyses of movement -- which range from Aristotle's recognition of motion as the principle of nature to a critique of the common notion of movement as change o.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 583 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-547) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 1556191944 9781556191947 9789027299987 9027299986 9789027251343 9027251347 1282164023 9781282164024 9786612164026 6612164026 |
ISSN: | 1381-589X ; |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |