Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is involved.

Titles

The Primacy of Movement: Expanded second edition

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 82] 2011. xxxii, 574 pp.

The Primacy of Movement

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 14] 1999. xxxiv, 583 pp.

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 2013 Bodily resonance Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement, De Preester, Helena (ed.), pp. 19–36 | Article

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 2012 Fundamental and inherently interrelated aspects of animation Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language, Foolen, Ad, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 29–56 | Article

This paper shows in detailed ways how animation is the evolutionary and existential ground floor of our being alive in the world and making sense of it, and thus how animation is the proper point of departure not only for basic understandings of perception, affectivity, cognition, meaning,… read more

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 2012 Chapter 3. Kinesthetic memory: Further critical reflections and constructive analyses Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, Koch, Sabine C., Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 43–72 | Article

This essay expands and broadens a 2003 article on kinesthetic memory. It does so by critically examining currently favored taxonomies of memory as put forward by scientists, philosophers, and neuroscientists, and, in turn, by presenting a phenomenological perspective on body memory based on… read more

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 2005 What are we naming? Body Image and Body Schema: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body, De Preester, Helena and Veroniek Knockaert (eds.), pp. 211–231 | Article

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 1999 Sensory-kinetic understandings of language: An inquiry into origins Evolution of Communication 3:2, pp. 149–183 | Article