Why read The Meaning of the Body?

Book cover of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding

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In "The Meaning of the Body", Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully…

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Frank Jacobus

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This book provides the reader with a foundation as to how we think through our bodily experience in the world. It argues that we think through the body and through experience and that bodily engagement with the world (organism-environment interaction) is used to develop more abstract modes of thought.

I find this key to understanding design generally.

From Frank's list on The best design sensing books.