Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and LanguageAd Foolen 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 (written by Colwyn Trevarthen, who brought the phenomenological notion of intersubjectivity to a wider audience some 30 years ago) 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. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Part I Consciousness | 27 |
Fundamental and inherently interrelated aspects of animation | 29 |
Could moving ourselves be the link between emotion and consciousness? | 57 |
Visual perception and selfmovement | 81 |
Emotion regulation through the ages | 105 |
Moving others matters | 139 |
Neurons neonates and narrative | 167 |
Intuitive meaning | 261 |
Relational emotions in semiotic and linguistic development | 305 |
The relevance of emotion for language and linguistics | 349 |
From presymbolic gestures to language | 369 |
The challenge of complexity | 383 |
Emotion in the XVIIth century | 407 |
Metaphor and subjective experience | 423 |
Epilogue | 451 |
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