Out of body. Language, emotions and art in Vygotsky's "Notebooks"
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia December 31, 2020 DOI: 10.4453/rifp.2020.0019 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Extended mind Language Vygotsky Chomsky Human emotions |
| Key points | Proposes that emotions are artificial entities external to the body, with a biological goal, based on combining Vygotsky's and Chomsky's theories. |
Abstract
According to the extended mind thesis, the human mind is not limited by the boundaries of the body. In this paper, we propose a description of human emotions based on two distinct theories, not usually considered together: Vygotsky’s historical-cultural psychology and Chomsky’s theory of language. Together these two perspectives allow us to construct a global theory of extended mind that considers emotions to be artificial entities that have a specific “biological” goal and are external to the body. In the last short section, this model will be applied to the case of “artistic” human affect.