Paul Thibault

Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body (eBook, PDF)

An Ecosocial Semiotic Theory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Thought always exaggerates' Hannah Arendt writes. The question of exaggeration becomes a philosophical question when thought endeavours to clarify the ways in which it relates to limits. If its disclosing force depends on exaggeration, so does the;confusion to which it can;fall prey. This book analyses concepts such as truth and trust, practices such as politics and art, experiences such as the formation of a life line and its erasure, from the viewpoint of exaggeration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847141521
• Artikelnr.: 38355595

Autorenporträt

Paul J. Thibault is Professor in Linguistics and Media Communication, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by M. A. K. Halliday
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Sensori-Motor Activity, Movement, and Social Meaning-Making
3.Body Dynamics, Meaning-Making, and Scale Heterogeneity
4.The Semiotic Basis of Consciousness
5. The Metafunctional Character of Consciousness
6. Brain, Meaning, and Consciousness