PhD student School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies (Moscow, Russia), HSE University, Leading Editor, Department of Scientific and Bibliograph-ic Processing of Information, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Moscow, o.skhnv@gmail.com
The article considers the body-oriented approach to the field of image studies. It proposes a shift away from the idea of imagery as being only visually defined and related to the analysis of artistic practices. Contemporary approaches to the image theory follow a general tendency to reject the mimetic theory, which is traditionally used to explain the nature of images. It is proposed to refer to certain ideas devel-oped by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, which were reflected in the idea of enactivism later. Merleau-Pontyʼs ideas are considered to have established a line of transition from the thematization of bodily experience to the image theory based on the main provisions of the body-oriented methodology in epistemology. It becomes possible due to the reconsideration of the dualistic division of the boundaries between the external and the internal, inherent in the Western metaphysical tradition, in the pro-ject of the French phenomenologist. The article traces the development of the con-cept of mental imagery in Modern Western philosophy and suggests that mental images are autopoietic and can be regarded as a complex combination of perceptual data, referring to each other up to the effect of synesthesia. It is shown that mental images should not be regarded as a pure product of the mind, but that they are emerged in the process of complex organization of perceptual experience, which involves the embodiment of the subject.
visual images; mental images; embodied cognition; enactivism; phenomenology of the body; Modern philosophy.
Download textFor citing: Sukhanova O.A. (2024) Mentalimagery from the perspective of embodied cognition approach. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow. INION RAN.Vol. 4 (60). pp. 98-113. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2024.04.06