The Body in the Mind The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
by Mark Johnson
University of Chicago Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-226-40317-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-40318-2 | Electronic: 978-0-226-17784-7
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226177847.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

"There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."—Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Context and Nature of This Study

1. The Need for a Richer Account of Meaning and Reason

2. The Emergence of Meaning through Schematic Structure

3. Gestalt Structure as a Constraint on Meaning

4. Metaphorical Projections of Image Schemata

5. How Schemata Constrain Meaning, Understanding, and Rationality

6. Toward a Theory of Imagination

7. On the Nature of Meaning

8. "All This, and Realism, Too!"

Notes

Index