Joseph S. Catalano

Thinking Matter

Consciousness from Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre

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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 rath… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-415-92664-5
EAN: 9780415926645
Produktnummer: 1647074
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 590 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor

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).