The Logos of the Living World : Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language / Louise Westling.
Westling, Louise, author.
2013
B2430.M3764 W47 2014
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Title The Logos of the Living World : Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language / Louise Westling.
Author Westling, Louise, author.
ISBN 9780823255689
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255689
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (208 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823255689 doi
Call Number B2430.M3764 W47 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 194
Summary Today we urgently need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other animals. This book puts Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy into dialogue with literature, evolutionary biology, and animal studies. In a radical departure from most critical animal studies, it argues for evolutionary continuity between human cultural and linguistic behaviors and the semiotic activities of other animals.In his late work, Derrida complained of philosophers who denied that animals possessed such faculties, but he never investigated the wealth of scientific studies of actual animal behavior. Most animal studies theorists still fail to do this. Yet more than fifty years ago, Merleau-Ponty carefully examined the philosophical consequences of scientific animal studies, with profound implications for human language and culture. For him, "animality is the logos of the sensible world: an incorporated meaning." Human being is inseparable from animality.This book differs from other studies of Merleau-Ponty by emphasizing his lifelong attention to science. It shows how his attention to evolutionary biology and ethology anticipated recent studies of animal cognition, culture, and communication.
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Series Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Philosophy of Life
2. Animal Kin
3. Language Is Everywhere
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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