The Roots of Thinking by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

The Roots of Thinking by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

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Zusammenfassung

Focusing on conceptual origins, this book shows that there is a bond between hominid thinking and hominid evolution, a bond cemented by the living body. This thesis is illustrated in eight paleoanthropological case studies ranging from tool-using/tool-making to counting, sexuality, representation, language, death, and cave art.

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The Roots of Thinking by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

A ground-breaking interdisciplinary study about conceptual origins linking hominid thinking with hominid evolution
"A significant contribution to the study of early humans, this book is a philosophical anthropology... it makes genuinely novel, and highly persuasive, claims within the field itself."
David Depew
"Ranging across the humanities and sciences, this thoroughly original book challenges both traditional metaphysics and contemporary cultural relativism. In their place, it persuasively develops a phenomenonological, tactile-kinesthetic account of the origins of thinking. This philosophical anthropology could not be more timely. It replaces the 'linguistic turn' with a promising new 'corporeal turn.'"
John J. Stuhr, University of Oregon
"This work takes a much-needed stand in the inter-disciplinary field of philosophical anthropology. Sheets-Johnstone is well-read in the history of philosophy and in contemporary anthropology. The point of view she offers is inventive, insightful, well-established, and fruitful."
Thomas M. Alexander, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is an independent scholar and Courtesy Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.
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ISBN 13 9780877227694
ISBN 10 0877227691
Titel The Roots of Thinking
Autor Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Temple University Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr 1990-09-12
Seitenanzahl 408
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