# Contents

Giovanni Maddalena, Fabio Ferrucci, Michela Bella, and Matteo Santarelli

**Introduction** — 1

## Part I: Gestures in Philosophy

Giovanni Maddalena

### Chapter 1

**Communication and Knowledge: A Proof of Completeness** — 15

Mathias Girel

### Chapter 2

**Are There Ambiguous Gestures?** — 33

Maria Regina Brioschi

### Chapter 3

**Between Saying and Doing: What Logic for Gestures?** — 47

Marco Stango

### Chapter 4

**Transcendental Gestures** — 63

Anna Donise

### Chapter 5

**Understanding Others: Theodor Lipps as Philosopher of Gestures** — 81

## Part II: Gestures in the Social Sciences

Tullio Viola

### Chapter 6

**Gestures, Habits, and Cultural Transmission: From “Organic Memory” to the Social Sciences** — 97
Pierpaolo Donati

**Chapter 7**

*A Relational Reading of Gesture* — 115

Fabio Ferrucci

**Chapter 8**

*The Problem of Museum Accessibility: A New Perspective from Relational*

*Sociology and Communicative Gesture* — 135

Pier Paolo Bellini

**Chapter 9**

*The Socio-Relational Roots of the Creative Gesture* — 155

Giorgio Borrelli

**Chapter 10**

*Gesture, Labor, and Semiosis: Some Research Hypotheses for a*

*Theoretical Convergence between Semiotics and Dialectics* — 169

## Part III: Gestures in Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences

Michela Bella

**Chapter 11**

*Toward a Psychology of Gesture* — 189

Matteo Santarelli

**Chapter 12**

*Psychoanalysis as a Science of Incomplete Gestures* — 205

Guido Baggio

**Chapter 13**

*Gesturing Language* — 219

Francesco Fanti Rovetta

**Chapter 14**

*Two Kinds of Perspectival Representations and the Role of Gestures in*

*Perceptually Anchoring Inner Speech* — 235
Laura Sparaci and Shaun Gallagher

**Chapter 15**

**Continuity through Change: How Gestures Inform Current Debates on the Ontogeny of Embodied Narrative** — 251

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

Antonis Iliopoulos

**Chapter 16**

**Gesture and Things: A Working Definition and Material Engagement** — 275

Roberta Dreon

**Chapter 17**

**Reason, Language, and Life: Frank Lorimer's Critical Development of Dewey's Approach** — 293

Barbara Formis

**Chapter 18**

**Handling Things Together: Artistic Practice as Research** — 311

Daniele Goldoni

**Chapter 19**

**Indeterminacy and Vagueness in Improvisation and in Experimental Music** — 331

Kelly Schoina

**Chapter 20**

**The Self as Multiplicity in Virginia Woolf's *Orlando*: Tracing Identity by Way of Pragmatism** — 347

**Contributors** — 369

**Index of Concepts** — 371

**Index of Names** — 373
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