Research Catalog

Title

Sensing corporeally : toward a posthuman understanding / Floyd Merrell.

Author

Merrell, Floyd, 1937-

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xiv, 359 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Toronto studies in semiotics and communication

Uniform Title

Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.

Subjects

• Compréhension (Théorie de la connaissance)
• Sémiotique
• Conscience
• Semiotics
• Comprehension (Theory of knowledge)
• Consciousness

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Change Accompanies Corporeal Sensing -- 1. Becoming Conscious Becoming -- 2. Bodymind Flows -- 3. The Peircean Dialogue -- 4. Up and Down the Semiosic Mainstream -- 5. From Signification to Understanding -- 6. Interim: From the Pen of Jorge Luis Borges -- 7. Doing It Tacitly -- 8. Bodymind Doing -- 9. When There Is Nothing on the Mind -- 10. Hasta la Vista Descartes -- 11. Language Fixation -- 12. Topology at the Core -- 13. On What Is New -- 14. Contextualizing the Pragmatic Maxim -- 15. Maximizing the Maxim -- 16. Distinctly Human Umwelt? -- 17. Space Dancing Through Time -- Postscript: Posthuman Understanding through Sensing Corporeally.

ISBN

0802037046

OCLC

• ocm50271576
• SCSB-4798647

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries