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Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. This work concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources.

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"Mark Johnson demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental - central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most visceral experience." - George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics"

The Meaning of the Body

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/11/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226401935, 978-0226401935
      ISBN10: 0226401936
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      Book Synopsis
      Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. This work concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources.

      Trade Review
      "Mark Johnson demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental - central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most visceral experience." - George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics"

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