
Moving Ourselves, Moving Others : Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Language
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Moving Ourselves, Moving Others : Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Language
About this book
The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due attention, but the key role of (e)motion in this context has remained something of a blind spot. The present book rectifies this gap by gathering contributions from leading philosophers, psychologists and linguists working in the area. Framed by an introducing prologue and a summarizing epilogue the volume elaborates a dynamical, active view of emotion, along with an affect-laden view of motion – and explores their significance for consciousness, intersubjectivity, and language. As such, it contributes to the emerging interdisciplinary field of mind science, transcending hitherto dominant computationalist and cognitivist approaches.
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Table of contents
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Prologue
- PartI Consciousness
- Fundamental and inherently interrelated aspects of animation
- Could moving ourselves be the link between emotion and consciousness?
- Visual perception and self-movement
- Emotion regulation through the ages
- Moving others matters
- Neurons, neonates and narrative
- Intersubjectivity in the lifeworld
- Primates, motion and emotion
- Reaching, requesting and reflecting
- Intuitive meaning
- Relational emotions in semiotic and linguistic development
- The relevance of emotion for language and linguistics
- From pre-symbolic gestures to language
- The challenge of complexity
- (E)motion in the XVIIth century
- Metaphor and subjective experience
- Epilogue
- Index