Sensing corporeally toward a posthuman understanding - Merrell, Floyd (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Change Accompanies Corporeal Sensing -- - Becoming Conscious Becoming -- - Bodymind Flows -- - The Peircean Decalogue -- - Up and Down the Semiosic Mainstream -- - From Signification to Understanding -- - Interim: From the Pen of Jorge Luis Borges -- - Doing It Tacitly -- - Bodymind Doing -- - When There Is Nothing on the Mind -- - Hasta la Vista Descartes -- - Language Fixation -- - Topology at the Core -- - On What Is New -- - Contextualizing the Pragmatic Maxim -- - Maximizing the Maxim -- - Distinctly Human Umwelt? -- - Space Dancing through Time
"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."--Jacket