This work looks at the nature of consciousness. The author argues that it is the "entire" fleshy body that thinks; the body of the dancer, the hands of a 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, he 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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...unusual and interesting... rare and sophisticated... The writing is brisk and clear, the index and bibliography excellent. Recommended for all collections Choice.
...a new, imaginative, and thought provoking perspective on how one is to view the world of matter...apart from the unusual clarity with which this book is written, what I found to be quite remarkable is that Catalano is at home in both the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy.
–Calvin O. Schrag, author of The Self After Postmodernity
...a new, imaginative, and thought provoking perspective on how one is to view the world of matter...apart from the unusual clarity with which this book is written, what I found to be quite remarkable is that Catalano is at home in both the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy.
–Calvin O. Schrag, author of The Self After Postmodernity
About the Author
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 of Dialectical Reason and Being and Nothingness, and of Good Faith and Other Essays (1996).
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The introductory remarks framed my anthropocentric perspective: our knowledge of the world is one with our bond to things, and this bond is itself a worldmaking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human fleshy body, crafting marks, fleshy constitution, fleshy organism, relational realism, fleshy eyes, anthropocentric realism, organic differentiation, internal realism, nonreductive materialism, pure enquiry, neutral conception, separated substances, surface irritations, definitional approach, commonsense intuitions, plural worlds, anthropocentric perspective, organic existence, scientific materialists, commonsense world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The introductory remarks framed my anthropocentric perspective: our knowledge of the world is one with our bond to things, and this bond is itself a worldmaking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human fleshy body, crafting marks, fleshy constitution, fleshy organism, relational realism, fleshy eyes, anthropocentric realism, organic differentiation, internal realism, nonreductive materialism, pure enquiry, neutral conception, separated substances, surface irritations, definitional approach, commonsense intuitions, plural worlds, anthropocentric perspective, organic existence, scientific materialists, commonsense world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Moby Dick, Paul Churchland, Diet Coke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Prime Mover, Richard Rorty, David Lewis, Hilary Putnam, Patricia Churchland, Central-state Materialism, Plato's World of Forms New!
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- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on 14 pages
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty on 6 pages
- Critique of Dialectical Reason (New Edition) (Vol. 2) by Jean-Paul Sartre on 5 pages
- Number. the Language of Science by Tobias Dantzig on 4 pages
- Representation and Reality (Representation and Mind) by Hilary Putnam on 4 pages
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