"A short, reader-friendly introduction to perhaps the most influential philosophical school of the 20th century -- phenomenology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words. Ostension is philosophically puzzling; it cuts across domains seemingly unbridgeable--public--privat…