Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 184714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxine Sheets-Johnstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxine |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheets-Johnstone |
| SIGNATURE | SHEETS-JOHNSTONE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1494-4806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Being-in-movement
Kinetic creativity
Beginning with a detailed example of ravens accessing food not immediately accessible, this article documents the fact that tool-making and tool-using are a creative kinetic process that engages mindful bodies in the course of their animate lives. It shows how thinking in movement and kinesthetic memory are basic aspects of synergies of meaningful movement in tool-making and tool-using and how corporeal and topological concepts link early hominid…
Animate being
The lived body
Kinesthesia
Why Kinesthesia, Tactility and Affectivity Matter
This article offers critical and constructive perspectives essential to understanding living bodies, and, in effect, to showing that kinesthesia, tactility and affectivity matter because they are central to animate life. Critical perspectives focus on practices that distance us from the lived realities of animate nature, on insights into those realities, and on ways in which language is intimately related to those realities. Constructive perspect…
Agency
Foundational Dynamics of Animate Nature
Strangers, Trust, and Religion
Embodiment on trial
Thinking in Movement
This review of Manning’s article wonders at the wonder that Manning describes. It does so first in broad terms that question the experience of wonder that Manning describes and goes on to wonder specifically about her understanding of the experienced realities of thinking in movement. In the course of doing so, the review questions her sweeping away ‘the subject’; questions her hard-and-fast distinctions between phenomenology and Whitehead’s meta…
The Primacy of Movement
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point, elucidating it within both an enactive and qualitative affective-kinetic dynamic. It follows through with a thoroughgoing interdisciplina…
Embodied minds or mindful bodies? A question of fundamental, inherently inter-related aspects of animation
The Descent of Man, human nature and the nature/culture divide
How does human nature, especially as typically construed within an imposed nature/ culture divide, fit into Darwin's keen and detailed descriptions of animate life? My answer will point out omissions on each side of the nature/culture divide, a divide academically evident in the division between 'the humanities' on the one side and 'the sciences' on the other. It will proceed to concentrate attention pre-eminently on an incredible lacuna in today…
Animation
Essential clarifications of ‘self-affection’ and Husserl’s ‘sphere of ownness’
Death and immortality ideologies in Western philosophy
Child's Play
Katharine Young, Presence in the Flesh
A Random Stroll
The Primacy of Movement
Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into the significance of animation. It addresses methodological and foundational issues at length. In its detailed and extensive examinations and analyses …
An empirical-phenomenological critique of the social construction of infancy
Tribal Lore in Present-day Paleoanthropology
This essay critically examines ways in which cognitivist tenets function as tribal lore in the current paleoanthropological controversy over the relationship between Neandertals and modern humans. It does this through an analysis of Stringer and Gamble's characterization of the behavior of "Moderns" as "symbolic behavior," showing how their underlying conception of a symbol is muddled and nowhere substantiated. It shows further how their denigrat…
Giving the Body Its Due
Giving the Body Its Due
Agency
Why Kinesthesia, Tactility and Affectivity Matter
This article offers critical and constructive perspectives essential to understanding living bodies, and, in effect, to showing that kinesthesia, tactility and affectivity matter because they are central to animate life. Critical perspectives focus on practices that distance us from the lived realities of animate nature, on insights into those realities, and on ways in which language is intimately related to those realities. Constructive perspect…
Child's Play
Corporeal Archetypes and Power
An examination of animate form reveals corporeal archetypes that underlie both human sexual behavior and the reigning Western biological paradigm of human sexuality that reworks the archetypes to enforce female oppression. Viewed within the framework of present-day social constructionist theory and Western biology, 1 show how both social constructionist feminists who disavow biology and biologists who reduce human biology to anatomy forget evolut…
An Account of Recent Changes in Dance in the U.S.A
Drawing upon her experiences and upon primary literary sources (the latter including both critical writings and statements by dancer-choreographers), the author presents a descriptive account of the changes that occurred within modern dance over a period of about 20 years in the U.S.A. That the body is the ultimate locus for the change is made evident in the analysis: a shift in attitude toward the body and a new understanding of its status withi…
Existential fit and evolutionary continuities
An Account of Recent Changes in Dance in the U.S.A
Drawing upon her experiences and upon primary literary sources (the latter including both critical writings and statements by dancer-choreographers), the author presents a descriptive account of the changes that occurred within modern dance over a period of about 20 years in the U.S.A. That the body is the ultimate locus for the change is made evident in the analysis: a shift in attitude toward the body and a new understanding of its status withi…
Existential fit and evolutionary continuities
On the Conceptual Origin of Death
Merleau-Ponty described objective body as impoverished image of phenomenal body.' In an earlier work, Sartre drew a similar distinction when he described body being-for-itself and body-forothers as existing different and incommunicable levels with one another.' Many philosophers have gone on to extol these critical determinations and to incorporate distinction in their work as a fundamental verity of human existence. Thus, Schrag, for example, ha…
Corporeal Archetypes and Power
An examination of animate form reveals corporeal archetypes that underlie both human sexual behavior and the reigning Western biological paradigm of human sexuality that reworks the archetypes to enforce female oppression. Viewed within the framework of present-day social constructionist theory and Western biology, 1 show how both social constructionist feminists who disavow biology and biologists who reduce human biology to anatomy forget evolut…
Giving the Body Its Due
Giving the Body Its Due
An empirical-phenomenological critique of the social construction of infancy
Tribal Lore in Present-day Paleoanthropology
This essay critically examines ways in which cognitivist tenets function as tribal lore in the current paleoanthropological controversy over the relationship between Neandertals and modern humans. It does this through an analysis of Stringer and Gamble's characterization of the behavior of "Moderns" as "symbolic behavior," showing how their underlying conception of a symbol is muddled and nowhere substantiated. It shows further how their denigrat…
The Primacy of Movement
Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into the significance of animation. It addresses methodological and foundational issues at length. In its detailed and extensive examinations and analyses …
Katharine Young, Presence in the Flesh
A Random Stroll
Death and immortality ideologies in Western philosophy
Child's Play
Essential clarifications of ‘self-affection’ and Husserl’s ‘sphere of ownness’
Animation
The Descent of Man, human nature and the nature/culture divide
How does human nature, especially as typically construed within an imposed nature/ culture divide, fit into Darwin's keen and detailed descriptions of animate life? My answer will point out omissions on each side of the nature/culture divide, a divide academically evident in the division between 'the humanities' on the one side and 'the sciences' on the other. It will proceed to concentrate attention pre-eminently on an incredible lacuna in today…
The Primacy of Movement
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point, elucidating it within both an enactive and qualitative affective-kinetic dynamic. It follows through with a thoroughgoing interdisciplina…
Embodied minds or mindful bodies? A question of fundamental, inherently inter-related aspects of animation
Thinking in Movement
This review of Manning’s article wonders at the wonder that Manning describes. It does so first in broad terms that question the experience of wonder that Manning describes and goes on to wonder specifically about her understanding of the experienced realities of thinking in movement. In the course of doing so, the review questions her sweeping away ‘the subject’; questions her hard-and-fast distinctions between phenomenology and Whitehead’s meta…
Embodiment on trial
Foundational Dynamics of Animate Nature
Strangers, Trust, and Religion
Agency
Why Kinesthesia, Tactility and Affectivity Matter
This article offers critical and constructive perspectives essential to understanding living bodies, and, in effect, to showing that kinesthesia, tactility and affectivity matter because they are central to animate life. Critical perspectives focus on practices that distance us from the lived realities of animate nature, on insights into those realities, and on ways in which language is intimately related to those realities. Constructive perspect…
Kinesthesia
Epistemology (23 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Cognitive science (7 works) · Politics (7 works)