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And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of the metaphor.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227820372341,"sku":"9780226468013","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226468013_e66cfd3d-7bc7-4dd5-95a8-704a8a513e02.jpg?v=1786012496"},{"product_id":"9780751539738","title":"Wasted","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Johnson's father had 'LOVE' tattooed across his left hand, but that didn't stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school with broken fingers and chipped teeth, but no one ever thought of investigating their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks, and kept on falling. For years. \u003cbr\u003eConstantly in trouble at school, Mark began stealing at the age of seven, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin aged eleven. A sensitive, intelligent boy, he could never stay on the right path, and though Art College beckoned, he ended up in Portland prison instead. \u003cbr\u003eWith searing honesty, WASTED documents Mark's descent into the depths of addiction and criminality. Homeless, hooked on heroin and crack, no one - least of all Mark - believed he would survive. And yet - astonishingly - he somehow pulled himself through, and now runs his own thriving tree surgery business, employing and helping other recovering addicts. His story is at once shocking and inspiring - a compelling account of his struggle to save himself, and help save others in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294655918453,"sku":"9780751539738","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780751539738_81951f31-e1ce-4468-a5d3-c3d0d269d593.jpg?v=1786015055"},{"product_id":"9780226401935","title":"The Meaning of the Body – Aesthetics of Human Understanding","description":"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 developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaning - including images, qualities, emotions, and metaphors - that are all rooted in the body's physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources.Throughout, Johnson puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if it is built on a visceral connection to the world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311625843061,"sku":"9780226401935","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226401935_96f9ef9f-366b-44f0-bae5-15a769b3ac84.jpg?v=1786012453"},{"product_id":"9780226500256","title":"Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason – How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding","description":"Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values. A brief account of Johnson's own intellectual journey, through which we track some of the most important discoveries in the field over the past forty years, sets the stage. Subsequent chapters set out Johnson's important role in embodied cognition theory, including his co-founding (with George Lakoff) of conceptual metaphor theory and, later, their theory of bodily structures and processes that underlie all meaning, conceptualization, and reasoning. A detailed account of how meaning arises from our physical engagement with our environments provides the basis for a non-dualistic, non-reductive view of mind that he sees as most congruous with the latest cognitive science. A concluding section explores the implications of our embodiment for our understanding of knowledge, reason, and truth.   The resulting book will be essential for all philosophers dealing with mind, thought, and language.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311626301813,"sku":"9780226500256","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226500256_e38151f6-41a3-4049-8cf8-b5af1aed711c.jpg?v=1786012517"},{"product_id":"cambridge-international-as-a-level-business-exam-preparation-and-practice-with-digital-access-2-years","title":"Cambridge International As \u0026 a Level Business Exam Preparation and Practice + Digital Access 2 Years","description":"Designed to increase confidence, help you recognise different question types, understand connections between concepts, reflect on progress and manage test anxiety. 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