Sensing corporeally : toward a posthuman understanding

Sensing corporeally : toward a posthuman understanding / Floyd Merrell.

"Floyd Merrell aims to overcome linear, mechanical thinking by underlining the role of the body and, in turn, the role of feeling and sensing, in the development of cognitive processes. Sensing Corporeally is a forceful and timely challenge to traditional models of human understanding."--J...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merrell, Floyd, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.
Series:Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
Subjects:
Semiotics.
Consciousness.
Comprehension (Theory of knowledge)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Consciousness
Semiotics
Bewusstsein
Leib-Seele-Problem
Philosophy of Mind
Erkenntnistheorie
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Change Accompanies Corporeal Sensing
  • Becoming Conscious Becoming
  • Bodymind Flows
  • The Peircean Decalogue
  • Up and Down the Semiosic Mainstream
  • From Signification to Understanding
  • Interim: From the Pen of Jorge Luis Borges
  • Doing It Tacitly
  • Bodymind Doing
  • When There Is Nothing on the Mind
  • Hasta la Vista Descartes
  • Language Fixation
  • Topology at the Core
  • On What Is New
  • Contextualizing the Pragmatic Maxim
  • Maximizing the Maxim
  • Distinctly Human Umwelt?
  • Space Dancing through Time.

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