The Roots of Thinking
ISBN-13:
9780877227113
ISBN-10:
087722711X
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Publication date:
1990
Publisher:
Temple Univ Pr
Format:
Hardcover
389 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780877227113
ISBN-10:
087722711X
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Publication date:
1990
Publisher:
Temple Univ Pr
Format:
Hardcover
389 pages
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The Roots of Thinking (ISBN-13: 9780877227113 and ISBN-10: 087722711X), written by authors
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, was published by Temple Univ Pr in 1990.
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In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study about conceptual origins, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone shows that there is an indissoluble bond between hominid thinking and hominid evolution, a bond cemented by the living body. Her thesis is concretely illustrated in eight paleoanthropological case studies ranging from tool-using/tool-making to counting, sexuality, representation, language, death, and cave art. In each case, evidence is brought forward that shows how thinking is modeled on the body-specifically, how concepts are generated by animate form and the tactile-kinesthetic experience. Later chapters critically examine key theoretical and methodological issues posed by the thesis, Sheets-Johnstone demonstrates in detail how and why a corporeal turn in philosophy and the human sciences can yield insights no less extraordinary than those produced by the linguistic turn. In confronting the currently popular doctrine of cultural relativism and the classic Western metaphysical dualism of mind and body, she shows how pan-cultural invariants of human bodily life have been discounted and how the body itself has not been given its due. By a precise exposition of how a full-scale hermeneutics and a genetic phenomenology may be carried out with respect to conceptual origins, she shows how methodological issues are successfully resolved.
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