Cognitive Semiotics

Per Aage Brandt is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University, USA.

• 1. Introduction 2. On the Mind of the Body. Spinoza, Descartes, and the Philosophy of Cognition3. The Architecture of the Embodied Mind4. On Consciousness and Semiosis5. The Dia-logic of Discourse6. Mental Spaces and Discourse 7. More on Mental Architecture, Spaces, and Blending8. Blending in the Poetics of Songs. Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah9. Forces and Spaces. Maupassant, Borges, Hemingway10. The Meaning of Translation11. Elements in Poetic Imagination12. Words in Language and Thought13. Numbers are Things in Time14. The Meaning and Madness of Money15. PostscriptBibliography Index

Working as one of the earliest and most original thinkers in cognitive semiotics, Per Aage Brandt, unfurls a brilliant tapestry of cross-disciplinary inquiry in this volume to reveal untold dynamics of the embodied poetic imagination. Brimming with insight on the truly hard problem of understanding meaning, this book is sure to inspire further research and productive debate among those who are working to integrate cognitive science with perspectives from semiotic phenomenology. Readers interested in many other domains -- from the study of songs, money, numbers, politics, and translation, to the study of consciousness, poetics, linguistics, psychology, and the history of ideas -- will also be instructed and inspired by reading this timely book.