This Brief provides an in-depth discussion of five major points of intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology. The first chapter frames central analytical and normative threads, foregrounding the focal notion of thresholds of sense. The second chapter explores the nature of contexts, situations, and backgrounds of meaning-making following the lead of John Dewey, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, and Gernot Böhme. Chapter three examines the complementary analytical power of the semiotic resources developed in the work of Peirce, Bühler, and Cassirer. Chapter four shows the heuristic fertility and psychological bearing of Susanne Langer's feeling-based aesthetic model of minding. The final chapter establishes affectivation as the inescapable consequence of human beings giving life to themselves by giving life to signs. The Brief concludes with three commentaries from leading researchers in the area. The chapters weave together interlocking themes: thenature of embodied perception, the variety of contexts and semiotic frameworks and their schematization of thresholds of meaning-making, the role of art and theories of imagination both in cultural psychology and in philosophy, and the centrality of feeling in all forms of meaning-making.
Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology will be of interest to cognitive and cultural psychologists as well as researchers and upper-graduate students in philosophy and related psychology fields.

Provides a review of the five overlapping themes in philosophy and cultural psychology Discusses the important contribution of cultural psychology to philosophy Offers a unique rotational view of the intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology

Autorentext

Robert E. Innis is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has been Humboldt Fellow at the University of Cologne, Fulbright Professor at the University of Copenhagen, and Obel Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalborg University in the Center for Cultural Psychology. His books include Karl Bühler: Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory, Consciousness and the Play of Signs, Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense, Susanne Langer in Focus: The Symbolic Mind, and Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology. He has published many articles and chapters dealing with the relations between philosophy, semiotics, and psychology and the aesthetic dimensions of life.

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Chapter 1. Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology: Pragmatist and semiotic reflections on the thresholds of Sense.- Chapter 2. On Not-Beating One's Wings in the Void: Linking Contexts of Meaning-Making.- Chapter 3. Affectivating Signs: On Semiotic Interruptions.- Chapter 4. Signs of Feeling: Psychological Roots of Susanne Langer's Model of Minding. Chapter 5 Affectivation: Life-Giving Signs- COMMENTARY 1 Marina Assis Pinheiro.- COMMENTARY 2 Line Joranger. - COMMENTARY 3 Raffaele De Luca Picione.