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Mark Johnson

The Body in the Mind

The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason

272 pages, 25 line drawings     © 1987

Paper $26.00

ISBN: 9780226403182   Published April 1990

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Context and Nature of This Study
1. The Need for a Richer Account of Meaning and Reason
2. The Emergence of Meaning through Schematic Structure
3. Gestalt Structure as a Constraint on Meaning
4. Metaphorical Projections of Image Schemata
5. How Schemate Constrain Meaning, Understanding, and Rationality
6. Toward a Theory of Imagination
7. On the Nature of Meaning
8. "All This, and Realism Too!"
Notes
Index
Subjects



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