This book presents an anti-intellectualist view of how the
cognitive-mental dimension of human intellect is rooted in and
interwoven with our embodied-internal components including emotion,
perception, desire, etc., by investigating practical forms of
thinking such as deliberation, planning, decision-making, etc. With
many thought-provoking statements, the book revises some classical
notions of rationality with new interpretation: we are "rational
animals", which means we have both rational capabilities, such as
calculation, evaluation, justification, etc., and more animal
aspects, like desire, emotion, and the senses. According to the
traditional position of rationalism, we use well-grounded reason as
the fundamental basis of our actions. But this book argues that we
simply perform our practical intellect intuitively and
spontaneously, just like playing music. By this the author turns
the dominant metaphor of "architecture" in understanding of human
rationality to that of "music-playing". This book presents a
groundbreaking and compelling critique of today's pervasively
reflective-intellectual culture, just as Bernard Williams, Charles
Taylor and other philosophers diagnose, and makes any detached
notion of rationality and formalized understanding of human
intellect highly problematic.Methodologically, it not only
reconciles the phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition with
analytical approaches, but also integrates various theories, such
as moral psychology, emotional studies, action theory, decision
theory, performativity studies, music philosophy, tacit knowledge,
collective epistemology and media theory. Further, its use of
everyday cases, metaphors, folk stories and references to movies
and literature make the book easy to read and appealing for a broad
readership.
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