Mark Johnson

MARKJOHNSON S FATHER HAD LOVE TATTOOED ACROSS HIS LEFT HAND, BUT THAT DIDN T STOP THE BEATINGS. THE JOHNSON CHILDREN WOULD TURN UP TO SCHOOL BATTERED AND BRUISED, BUT NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF INVESTIGATING THEIR HOME LIFE. MARK JUST SLIPPED THROUGH THE CRACKS AND KEPT ON FALLING. FOR YEARS. BROUGHT UP IN A HOME SIMMERING WITH VIOLENCE AND DARK SECRETS, MARK FELL INTO BAD HABITS AT AN EARLY AGE. CONSTANTLY IN TROUBLE AT SCHOOL, HE BEGAN STEALING _T THE AGE OF SIX, WAS DRINKING BY THE AGE OF EIGHT AND TOOK HIS FIRST HIT OF HEROIN AGED ELEVEN. A SENSITIVE AND INTELLIGENT BOY, HE COULD NEVER STAY ON THE RIGHT PATH, AND THOUGH ART COLLEGE BECKONED, HE ENDED UP IN PORTLAND PRISON INSTEAD. WITH SEARING HONESTY, WASTED DOCUMENTS MARK S DESCENT INTO THE VERY DEPTHS OF ADDICTION AND CRIMINALITY. HOOKED ON HEROIN AND CRACK, HOMELESS ON THE STREETS OF LONDON AND WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD, NO ONE - LEAST OF ALL MARK - BELIEVED HE WOULD SURVIVE, NEVER MIND RECOVER. _ND YET HE SOMEHOW FOUND THE STRENGTH _O PULL THROUGH, AND NOW RUNS HIS OWN THRIVING TREE SURGERY BUSINESS, EMPLOYING AND HELPING OTHER RECOVERING ADDICTS. HIS STORY IS AT ONCE SHOCKING AND INSPIRATIONAL - A HEARTBREAKING AND COMPELLING ACCOUNT OF ONE MAN S STRUGGLE TO SAVE HIMSELF, AND HELP SAVE OTHERS IN THE PROCESS.

In "The Meaning of the Body", Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaning - including images, qualities, emotions, and metaphors - that are all rooted in the body's physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources. Throughout, Johnson puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if it is built on a visceral connection to the world.

* A Childhood Stolen. An Innocence Betrayed. A Life Redeemed* A shocking and inspiring true account of addiction and recovery - in the tradition of The Kid and Ugly

Denne bog vil få læseren til at tænke over sproget på en helt ny måde. For metaforer er ikke forbeholdt poesien eller retorikken, hævder Lakoff og Johnson, de er en del af hverdagens sprog, og de påvirker måden vi tænker, opfatter og handler på. Tag den begrebsmæssige metafor DISKUSSION ER KRIG. Vi siger: ”Jeg slog hårdt ned på alle svage punkter i hans oplæg”, ”Hendes kritik ramte plet”, ”Han skød min teori i sænk”. Men som forfatterne skriver, ”Det er vigtigt at forstå, at vi ikke bare taler om diskussioner vha. udtryk, der har med krig at gøre. Vi kan faktisk vinde eller tabe diskussioner. Vi betragter den person vi diskuterer med, som vores modstander. Vi angriber hans holdninger, og vi forsvarer vores egne ... I den forstand er metaforen DISKUSSION ER KRIG en vi lever med i vores kultur; den strukturerer de handlinger vi udfører, når vi diskuterer.” Lakoff og Johnson hævder dermed, at metaforen er selve grundlaget for vores måde at opfatte verden på. Hverdagens metaforer er fra 1980, men er allerede blevet en sprogvidenskabelig klassiker. Bogen, der nu for første gang foreligger på dansk, er et vigtigt bidrag til hvad der i dag anses for at være den mest produktive metaforteori. George Lakoff er professor i lingvistik ved University of California i Berkeley og forfatter til Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Mark Johnson er professor i filosofi ved University of Oregon og forfatter til The Body in the Mind. Sammen har de desuden skrevet Philosophy in the Flesh. Oversat fra amerikansk efter Metaphors We Live By af Ulrik Hvilshøj og Hanne Salomonsen.

Photodetection techniques are becoming increasingly necessary for electronics design workThis reference provides a practical "rules of thumb" approach to making accurate optical measurements with equipment commonly found in labs and companies. Considers the full chain of equipment: photodetectors, amplifiers, LED sources, electronic drives, basic optics, interference screens, and data acquisition systemsHow to make use of the simplest detector in every situationNoise reduction techniquesBuilding in stability

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Bringing together the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy, Lakoff and Johnson offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind. And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of the metaphor.

This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers and transnational consumers. The book focuses, in particular, on the meaning and experience of local 'gays' -- transvestite/transgender-homosexual men -- who are at once celebrated as purveyors of beauty (defined in terms of a global American otherness) and valorized as impotent men and defiled women. In short, America functions both as a sign of their abjected status and as a space for imagining and reformulating various gendered identities. This innovative work -- one of the first ethnographic studies to be published in the aftermath of the region's civil unrest -- will be of interest to anyone working on gender, the body and sexuality. Not only does it extend the boundaries of cross-cultural studies of non-mainstream genders and sexualities by directly engaging the entanglement of local sensibilities with global images and discourse, but it also demonstrates that there is nothing ambiguous about ambiguity -- gendered, sexual or otherwise. Rather, this ambiguity is the specific product of different historical relations of power through which various cultural subjects are created and re-create themselves.

This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers and transnational consumers. The book focuses, in particular, on the meaning and experience of local 'gays' -- transvestite/transgender-homosexual men -- who are at once celebrated as purveyors of beauty (defined in terms of a global American otherness) and valorized as impotent men and defiled women. In short, America functions both as a sign of their abjected status and as a space for imagining and reformulating various gendered identities. This innovative work -- one of the first ethnographic studies to be published in the aftermath of the region's civil unrest -- will be of interest to anyone working on gender, the body and sexuality. Not only does it extend the boundaries of cross-cultural studies of non-mainstream genders and sexualities by directly engaging the entanglement of local sensibilities with global images and discourse, but it also demonstrates that there is nothing ambiguous about ambiguity -- gendered, sexual or otherwise. Rather, this ambiguity is the specific product of different historical relations of power through which various cultural subjects are created and re-create themselves.

Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.

"There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."—Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle

Because of the ease of their implementation, attribute-value based theories of grammar are becoming increasingly popular in theoretical linguistics as an alternative to transformational accounts and in computational linguistics. This book provides a formal analysis of attribute-value structures, their use in a theory of grammar and the representation of grammatical relations in such theories of grammar. It provides a classical treatment of disjunction and negation, and explores the linguistic implications of different representations of grammatical relations. Mark Johnson is assistant professor in cognitive and linguistic sciences at Brown University. He was a Fairchild postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1987-88 academic year.

Because of the ease of their implementation, attribute-value based theories of grammar are becoming increasingly popular in theoretical linguistics as an alternative to transformational accounts and in computational linguistics. This book provides a formal analysis of attribute-value structures, their use in a theory of grammar and the representation of grammatical relations in such theories of grammar. It provides a classical treatment of disjunction and negation, and explores the linguistic implications of different representations of grammatical relations. Mark Johnson is assistant professor in cognitive and linguistic sciences at Brown University. He was a Fairchild postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1987-88 academic year.