Joseph S. Catalano

Thinking Matter (eBook, PDF)

Consciousness from Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre

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Produktbeschreibung

Thinking Matter is an original and provocative look at the nature of consciousness. While many contemporary philosophers have downplayed the significance of the body and subscribed to a brain/body dualism in human consciousness, Joseph S. Catalano argues that it is the entire fleshy body that thinks; the body of the dancer, the hands of the writer, and the eyes of the reader are not merely instruments of thought, but forms of thought itself. Calling for a thorough rethinking of philosophic traditions from Aristotle to Sartre, Catalano offers a holistic view of the bodily nature of consciousness--one that focuses on the total organic body rather than the brain alone.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135958466
• Artikelnr.: 42726613

Autorenporträt

Joseph S. Catalano is an internationally recognized Sartre scholar and Professor Emeritus at Kean University of at Kean University of New Jersey. He is the author of classic commentaries on Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique ofDialectical Reason and Being and Nothingness, and of GoodFaith and Other Essays (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Perspective I: The Body and the World 1.Matter and Pure
Enquiry 2.Moving Matter, Thinking Thoughts 3.Knowledge as Worldmaking
4.Matters and Modalities II: On Names and Things 5.Names and Things 6.The
Transcendence of Mind 7.The Written Word Conclusion: The Anthropocentric
Universe Appendix I: The Snub and the Population Question Appendix II: On
Names Selected Bibliography Index