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The Philosophy of Gesture

Author : Giovanni Maddalena
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773597891
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Gesture written by Giovanni Maddalena and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In everyday reasoning - just as in science and art - knowledge is acquired more by "doing" than with long analyses. What do we "do" when we discover something new? How can we define and explore the pattern of this reasoning, traditionally called "synthetic"? Following in the steps of classic pragmatists, especially C.S. Pierce, Giovanni Maddalena's Philosophy of Gesture revolutionizes the pattern of synthesis through the ideas of change and continuity and proposes "gesture" as a new tool for synthesis. Defining gesture as an action with a beginning and an end that carries on a meaning, Maddalena explains that it is a dense blending of all kinds of phenomena - feelings and vague ideas, actual actions, habits of actions - and of signs - icons, indexes, and symbols. When the blending of phenomena and signs is densest, the gesture is "complete," and its power of introducing something new in knowledge is at its highest level. Examples of complete gestures are religious liturgies, public and private rites, public and private actions that establish an identity, artistic performances, and hypothesizing experiments. A departure from a traditional Kantian framework for understanding the nature and function of reason, The Philosophy of Gesture proposes an approach that is more attuned with our ordinary way of reasoning and of apprehending new knowledge.

Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy

Author : Josef Fulka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261482
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy by : Josef Fulka

Download or read book Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy written by Josef Fulka and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view deafness and sign language in negative terms, i.e. as deficiency, others present deafness essentially as difference, i.e. as a set of competences that might provide some insights into how spoken language works. One of the arguments of the book is that these two views of deafness and sign language still represent two dominant paradigms present in the current debates on the issue. The aim of the book, therefore, is not only to provide a historical overview but to trace what might be called a “history of the present”.

The Minor Gesture

Author : Erin Manning
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374412
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Minor Gesture written by Erin Manning and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor gesture's power to fashion relations, its capacity to open new modes of experience and manners of expression, is to challenge the ways in which the neurotypical image of the human devalues alternative ways of being moved by and moving through the world—in particular what Manning terms "autistic perception." Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis and Whitehead's speculative pragmatism, Manning's far-reaching analyses range from fashion to depression to the writings of autistics, in each case affirming the neurodiversity of the minor and the alternative politics it gestures toward.

Migrations of Gesture

Author : Carrie Noland
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816648646
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Migrations of Gesture written by Carrie Noland and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the Latin verb “gerere”-to carry, act, or do-“gesture” has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production. Gestures migrate from body to body, from one medium to another, and between cultural contexts. Juxtaposing distinct approaches to gesture in order to explore the ways in which they at once shape and are influenced by culture, the contributors examine the works of writers Henri Michaux and Stphane Mallarm, photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Martin Arnold, along with cultural practices such as gang walking, ballet, and classical Indian dance. The authors move deftly between an organic, phenomenal appreciation of human expression and a historicist, semiotic understanding of how the “human” is itself created through gestural routines. Contributors: Mark Franko, U of California, Santa Cruz; Ketu H. Katrak, U of California, Irvine; Akira Mizuta Lippit, U of Southern California; Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer College; Deidre Sklar; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Blake Stimson, U of California, Davis. Carrie Noland is associate professor of French literature and critical theory at the University of California, Irvine. Sally Ann Ness is professor of anthropology at University of California, Riverside.

Gestures and Attitudes

Author : Edward Barrett Warman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gestures and Attitudes written by Edward Barrett Warman and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Expressive Physical Culture Or, Philosophy of Gesture

Author : Charles Wesley Emerson
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230344010
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Expressive Physical Culture Or, Philosophy of Gesture by : Charles Wesley Emerson

Download or read book Expressive Physical Culture Or, Philosophy of Gesture written by Charles Wesley Emerson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... themselves. The most effective gestures are those made unconsciously to the speaker, and are unobserved by the listener. "Forms are used for the purpose of conveying ideas, and the simpler and truer they are, the easier will they lm comprehended, no matter how great the idea. The grandest revelation ever brought to the human mind came in the simple form and language of the Gospels, and it were well if all art and all life would emulate that simplicity." HINDRANCES. The question might be asked, "Since gesture is the natural expression of mind through the muscles, why is it necessary to study or practice exercises for the purpose of effective expression through gesture?" The answer lies in the fact that all organic nature demands education in agreement with its tendencies, and all tendencies require education for their perfect development. Through education, tendencies blossom into fulfillment. The horticulturist, by bringing tn bear the right influences and conditions for the growth of a plant, assists nature in unfolding the highest possibilities of plant life. Every plant is susceptible of culture along the line of its natural tendencies. The horticulturist does not determine the tendency, he merely assists in its fulfillment. Without proper culture no one can fulfill his highest possibilities, and one of the aims of true education is the elimination of hindrances, to the end of developing the potential beauty, truth and good in human nature. Emerson says, "'Tis inhuman to want faith in the power of education, since to meliorate is the law of nature." We have but to consider the physiology of habit, upon which all scientists are agreed, in order to see that the meliorating force of education applies to the body as well as to the mind. A...

Gesture of Awareness

Author : Charles Genoud
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861718607
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Gesture of Awareness written by Charles Genoud and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the twenty-first century reader and practitioner. Gesture of Awareness involves a fascinating philosophical exploration of time, space, and movement but at the same time is a manual for an embodied "practice of exploration." Genoud is very well known to the leading lights of Buddhism today. He and his work are continuingly praised for their invention and importance. Well-versed in French and continental philosophies, as well as Eastern thought, he has produced a work that will be welcomed as a Buddhist book and a noteworthy contribution to the larger philosophical community.

Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou

Author : Christopher Kul-Want
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549369
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou by : Christopher Kul-Want

Download or read book Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou written by Christopher Kul-Want and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each accompanied by an introduction and exposition by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, that places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework of aesthetic and social thought. Encompassing a range of intellectual traditions—Marxism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, gender and affect theories—this critical reader features writings by Bergson, Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer, Merleau-Ponty, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Lyotard, Deleuze, Kristeva, Agamben, Žižek, Nancy, Cavell, Rancière, Badiou, Stiegler, and Silverman. Many of the texts discuss cinema as a mass medium; others develop phenomenological analyses of particular films. Reflecting upon the potential of films to challenge dominant forms of ideology, the anthology considers the ways in which they can disrupt the clichés of capitalist images and offer radical possibilities for creating new worlds of visceral experience outside the grasp of habitual forms of knowledge and subjectivity. Ranging from the early silent period of cinema through the classics of European and Hollywood cinema to the early twenty-first century, the films discussed offer a vivid sense of these philosophers’ concepts and ideas, casting new light on the history of cinema. This reader is an essential and valuable resource for a wide range of courses in film and philosophy.

Gestures

Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452949222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Gestures written by Vilém Flusser and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gestures' is a collection of essays that proposes a daring and ambitious new conception of human behaviour. Defining gesture as 'a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation', Flusser moves around the topic from different points of view, angles and distances. Holding firmly to basic phenomenological principles - that consciousness is always consciousness of something, that we know others by reference to ourselves, he claims that we constantly 'read' states of mind, i.e. thoughts, intentions, emotions, from gestures.

Hand and Mind

Author : David McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226561348
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Hand and Mind written by David McNeill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research subject is shown a cartoon like the 1950 Canary Row--a classic Sylvester and Tweedy Bird caper that features Sylvester climbing up a downspout, swallowing a bowling ball and slamming into a brick wall. After watching the cartoon, the subject is videotaped recounting the story from memory to a listener who has not seen the cartoon. Painstaking analysis of the videotapes revealed that although the research subjects--children as well as adults, some neurologically impaired--represented a wide variety of linguistic groupings, the gestures of people speaking English and a half dozen other languages manifest the same principles. Relying on data from more than ten years of research, McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself.

Expressive Physical Culture Or, Philosophy of Gesture

Author : Charles Wesley Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Expressive Physical Culture Or, Philosophy of Gesture written by Charles Wesley Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gesture and Thought

Author : David McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226514641
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Gesture and Thought written by David McNeill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, set about answering this question over twenty-five years ago. In Gesture and Thought he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectical component of language. Gesture and Thought expands on McNeill’s acclaimed classic Hand and Mind. While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930s, McNeill posits that gestures are key ingredients in an “imagery-language dialectic” that fuels both speech and thought. Gestures are both the “imagery” and components of “language.” The smallest element of this dialectic is the “growth point,” a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking. An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of human communication and thought, Gesture and Thought is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent theory on the subject.

Elements of Meaning in Gesture

Author : Geneviève Calbris
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027228477
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Elements of Meaning in Gesture by : Geneviève Calbris

Download or read book Elements of Meaning in Gesture written by Geneviève Calbris and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris' book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.

Gestures and Attitudes

Author : Edward B. Warman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333816452
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Gestures and Attitudes written by Edward B. Warman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gestures and Attitudes: An Exposition of the Delsarte Philosophy of Expression Practical and Theoretical We do not know all that is known of his philosophy of expression. What we do know, of practical benefit, is in this volume. What we do not know would probably make a larger volume. An exhaustive treatise of this subject is impossible; it is as boundless as the ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Moving Imagination

Author : Helena De Preester
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727200X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Moving Imagination written by Helena De Preester and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in watching a film, attending a dance or theatre performance, looking at paintings or drawings, and listening to music is explored from a diversity of perspectives. This volume is intended for both the specialist and non-specialist in the fields of art, philosophy and cognitive science, and testifies to the burgeoning interest for the moving and gesturing body, not only in the creation but also in the perception of works of art. Imagination is tied to our capacity to silently resonate with the way a work of art has been or is created.

Theatre of Movement and Gesture

Author : Jacques Lecoq
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113424097X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Theatre of Movement and Gesture written by Jacques Lecoq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Étienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautré celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.

Gesture and Attitudes, an Exposition of the Delsarte Philosophy of Expression Practical and Theoretical

Author : Edward Barrett Warman
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376824575
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Gesture and Attitudes, an Exposition of the Delsarte Philosophy of Expression Practical and Theoretical written by Edward Barrett Warman and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.