The Power of the Image - Emotion, Expression, Explanation (Hardcover, New edition)

We think primarily in images, and only secondarily in words, while both the image and the word are preceded by the bodily, the visceral, the muscular. This holds even for mathematical thinking. It is the entire motor system, including facial expressions and bodily gestures, that underlies not just emotions but also abstract thought. Communication, too, is a primordially visual task, spoken and written language only gradually supplementing and even supplanting the pictorial. Writing liberates, but also enslaves; after centuries of a dominantly verbal culture, today the ease of producing and accessing digital images amounts to a homecoming of the visual, with the almost limitless online availability of our textual heritage completing the educational revolution of the 21st century.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Visual Learning, 4
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Andras Benedek • Kristof Nyiri
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-64713-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	3-631-64713-1
Barcode:	9783631647134

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