Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding

by Floyd Merrell

In Sensing Corporeally, Floyd Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms. Focusing on qualitative and analogical sensing, rather than quantitative and digital reasoning, Merrell begins by reflecting on the concept of consciousness as developed by neurologist Antonio Damasio, whose work in turn reflects Charles Peirce's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802037046
• ISBN13: 9780802037046
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.5"