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BECOMING HUMAN
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE, SELF AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS |
| By: |
John V. Canfield |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£69.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230288227 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230288225 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
28 September, 2007 |
| Description: |
This book is a philosophical examination of the stages in our journey from hominid to human. Dealing with the nature and origin of language, self-consciousness, and the religious ideal of a return to Eden, it has a philosophical anthropology approach. It provides an account of our place in nature consistent with both empiricism and mysticism. |
| Synopsis: |
The main way-stations in our journey from ape to human are the coming to language, the development of self, and of self-consciousness. To know what it is to be a human we must come to understand those stages in our passage out of Eden. We must also consider the religious ideal of a return to Eden. This book deals with these issues in terms of a philosophical anthropology derived from the later writings of Wittgenstein. The result is an account of our place in nature consistent with both a hard-headed empiricism and a this-worldly but religiously significant mysticism. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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