Embodied Mind and Neural Underpinnings of the Aesthetic Experience. A Case Study from the German Eighteenth Century: 4E Cognition Theories Forecasted by Johann Gottfried Herder
Global Journal of Medical Research May 7, 2021 Renata Gambino, G. Pulvirenti 2 citations
Ideas from the bio-cultural turn and embodied cognition, prominent in contemporary theory, were anticipated in late 18th-century German debates across anthropology, philosophy, physiology, and science. Johann Gottfried Herder, a philosopher and theologian, significantly contributed to this discourse by offering new perspectives on the connections among thought, language, and the body. This paper highlights core issues in Herder's work on knowledge, perception, and cognition that appear to foreshadow key concepts in modern 4E Cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended cognition).