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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781216303321

Autore

Sheets-Johnstone Maxine

Titolo

The primacy of movement [[electronic resource] /] / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-17486-3

9786613174864

90-272-8677-9

Edizione

[Expanded 2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (606 p.)

Collana

Advances in consciousness research, , 1381-589X ; ; v. 82

Disciplina

116

Soggetti

Movement (Philosophy)

Movement, Psychology of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Foundations -- section 2. Methodology -- section 3. Applications -- section 4. Twenty-first century reflections on human nature : foundational concepts and realities.

Sommario/riassunto

This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point, elucidating it within both an enactive and qualitative affective-kinetic dynamic. It follows through with a thoroughgoing interdisciplinary inquiry into movement from three perspectives: mind, brain, and the conceptually reciprocal realities of receptivity and responsiv