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OverviewIn the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse. However, questions of agency and how it relates to consciousness have received less attention. This book explores the ways in which agency and consciousness are created through transactions between self and other. The book argues that it is necessary to regard body-brain interactions in the context of the social and discursive practices which act upon human bodies. These issues of agency and individuation are explored in relation to infant semiosis, as well as in relation to children's symbolic play. Thibault looks at the importance of the self-referential moral conscience in relation to the interpersonal dimension of all acts of meaning-making. This conscience is also connected to the development of a self-referential viewpoint which the book argues is connected to the ecosocial semiotic systems of thinking about consciousness as a complex system operating on many different levels. The author discusses and evaluates the work of linguists, psychologists, biologists, semioticians, and sociologists such as Basil Bernstein, Mikhail Bakhtin, J. J. Gibson, M. A. K. Halliday, Walter Kauffman, Lakoff & Johnson, Jay Lemke, Jean Piaget and Stanley Salthe, to develop a new theory of agency and consciousness. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul ThibaultPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Edition: illustrated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780826474261ISBN 10: 0826474268 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 01 December 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. The Semiotic Mediation of Consciousness in Social Meaning-Making 3. Agency, Intentionality and Individuation in Infant Semiosis 4. Reflexive (Self) Consciousness, Conscience, and the Dialogical Basis of Intrapersonal Moral Consciousness 5. Dialogic Closure and the Semiotic Mediation of Consciousness in Ecosocial Networks 6. Metaphor as Semiotic Re-Organization Across Levels ReferencesReviewsThe origin and development of human consciousness have always exercised attraction, through the debate until quite recently had been polarised between nature and nurture, brain and environment. In this book Paul Thibault brings a point of view informed on the one hand by recent developments in brain sciences and on the other by his deep understanding of human interaction which naturally occurs in the environments of human life. Displaying a balanced perspective between brain, body and social world, Paul Thibault, the author of the fascinating volume Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body, offers a thoroughly semiotic interpretation of interaction, and its role in the formation of human consciousness. Author InformationPaul J. Thibault is Professor in Linguistics and Media Communication, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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