The primacy of movement / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.

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...

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Main Author: Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©1999.
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 14.
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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.
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.