Helena De Preester

List of John Benjamins publications in which Helena De Preester is involved.

Titles

Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement

Edited by Helena De Preester

This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] 2013. vi, 320 pp.

Body Image and Body Schema: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body

Edited by Helena De Preester and Veroniek Knockaert

The body, as the common ground for objectivity and (inter)subjectivity, is a phenomenon with a perplexing plurality of registers. Therefore, this innovative volume offers an interdisciplinary approach from the fields of neuroscience, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The concepts of body image and… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 62] 2005. ix, 343 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

De Preester, Helena 2013 Moving imagination: Headlines and themes Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement, De Preester, Helena (ed.), pp. 1–18 | Article

De Preester, Helena 2005 Two phenomenological logics and the mirror neurons theory Body Image and Body Schema: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body, De Preester, Helena and Veroniek Knockaert (eds.), pp. 45–64 | Article

De Preester, Helena and Veroniek Knockaert 2005 Introduction Body Image and Body Schema: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body, De Preester, Helena and Veroniek Knockaert (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Miscellaneous

De Preester, Helena 2002 Intentionality and the inside/outside distinction in sensitive systems Consciousness & Emotion 3:1, pp. 65–79 | Article

Working from both a phenomenological and a biological background, the conditions under which the emergence of intentionality occurs, are approached. This is done via two particularities of biological systems: the inside/outside distinction they exhibit and the fact that they are sensitive. The… read more