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# Gestures

- Edited by: Giovanni Maddalena , Fabio Ferrucci , Michela Bella and Matteo Santarelli

- Funded by: University of Molise

## Overview

### About this book

Over the past few years, scientists and philosophers have discussed the concept of gesture as promising to overcome hyper-intellectualist conceptions of human beings. Its ascendancy reaffirmed the importance of the pragmatic, relational dimension in human experience and cognitive processes.

Many questions arise when we focus on the cognitive role of gestures, especially in the new cultural landscape shaped by the digital revolution. Does the idea of gestures highlight the preeminence of bodily experiences? Does it lead to the thinning of the distinction between humans and nonhuman animals? Do gestures help us rethink the allegedly higher human capacities in an antireductionist vein? Do gestures involve reasoning? Are they purely external actions? Do they serve to communicate, or is all communication a form of gesture? What kinds of social relations are involved in the concept of gesture?

According to a multidisciplinary orientation, the book inquiries into the possibilities and issues opened up by attending to a philosophy of gestures in philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and communication studies. Given the current centrality of gestures, the general aim of the book is to reconsider the meaning of "gestures" and try to answer old and new questions.

### Author / Editor information

Giovanni Maddalena, Michela Bella and Fabio Ferrucci, University of Molise, Italy; Matteo Santarelli, University of Bologna, Italy.

### Topics

- Philosophy History of Philosophy History of Philosophy, other

- Social Sciences Communication Science Interpersonal Communication

## Table of contents

- Open Access Cite this Frontmatter I Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Contents V Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Introduction 1 Giovanni Maddalena, Fabio Ferrucci, Michela Bella and Matteo Santarelli Download PDF

- Part I: Gestures in Philosophy

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 1 Communication and Knowledge: A Proof of Completeness 15 Giovanni Maddalena Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 2 Are There Ambiguous Gestures? 33 Mathias Girel Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 3 Between Saying and Doing: What Logic for Gestures? 47 Maria Regina Brioschi Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 4 Transcendental Gestures 63 Marco Stango Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 5 Understanding Others: Theodor Lipps as Philosopher of Gestures 81 Anna Donise Download PDF

- Part II: Gestures in the Social Sciences

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 6 Gestures, Habits, and Cultural Transmission: From “Organic Memory” to the Social Sciences 97 Tullio Viola Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 7 A Relational Reading of Gesture 115 Pierpaolo Donati Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 8 The Problem of Museum Accessibility: A New Perspective from Relational Sociology and Communicative Gesture 135 Fabio Ferrucci Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 9 The Socio-Relational Roots of the Creative Gesture 155 Pier Paolo Bellini Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 10 Gesture, Labor, and Semiosis: Some Research Hypotheses for a Theoretical Convergence between Semiotics and Dialectics 169 Giorgio Borrelli Download PDF

- Part III: Gestures in Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 11 Toward a Psychology of Gesture 189 Michela Bella Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 12 Psychoanalysis as a Science of Incomplete Gestures 205 Matteo Santarelli Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 13 Gesturing Language 219 Guido Baggio Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 14 Two Kinds of Perspectival Representations and the Role of Gestures in Perceptually Anchoring Inner Speech 235 Francesco Fanti Rovetta Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 15 Continuity through Change: How Gestures Inform Current Debates on the Ontogeny of Embodied Narrative 251 Laura Sparaci and Shaun Gallagher Download PDF

- Part IV: Gestures in Anthropology, Aesthetics, and Arts

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 16 Gesture and Things: A Working Definition and Material Engagement 275 Antonis Iliopoulos Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 17 Reason, Language, and Life: Frank Lorimer’s Critical Development of Dewey’s Approach 293 Roberta Dreon Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 18 Handling Things Together: Artistic Practice as Research 311 Barbara Formis Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 19 Indeterminacy and Vagueness in Improvisation and in Experimental Music 331 Daniele Goldoni Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Chapter 20 The Self as Multiplicity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: Tracing Identity by Way of Pragmatism 347 Kelly Schoina Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Contributors 369 Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Index of Concepts 371 Download PDF

- Open Access Cite this Index of Names 373 Download PDF

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