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Neanderthal language : demystifying the linguistic powers of our extinct cousins
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ISBN: 9781108868167 9781108491327 9781108811842 1108868169 1108491324 1108870562 1108865445 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Did Neanderthals have language, and if so, what was it like? Scientists agree overall that the behaviour and cognition of Neanderthals resemble that of early modern humans in important ways. However, the existence and nature of Neanderthal language remains a controversial topic. The first in-depth treatment of this intriguing subject, this book comes to the unique conclusion that, collective hunting is a better window on Neanderthal language than other behaviours. It argues that Neanderthal hunters employed linguistic signs akin to those of modern language, but lacked complex grammar. Rudolf Botha unpacks and appraises important inferences drawn by researchers working in relevant branches of archaeology and other prehistorical fields, and uses a large range of multidisciplinary literature to bolster his arguments. An important contribution to this lively field, this book will become a landmark book for students and scholars alike, in essence, illuminating Neanderthals' linguistic powers.


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Lectures on anthropology
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ISBN: 9780521771610 9781139028639 9781107583504 9781107344976 1107344972 9781107341227 1107341221 1139028634 0521771617 1107583500 1107357098 1107347475 1107348668 1299399967 1107343720 1107233429 9781107357099 9781107347472 9781107348660 9781299399969 9781107343726 9781107233423 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extensive texts, Anthropology Friedländer (1772) and Anthropology Mrongovius (1786), are presented here in their entirety, along with selections from all the other lecture transcriptions published in the Academy edition, together with sizeable portions of the Menschenkunde (1781-2), first published in 1831. These lectures show that Kant had a coherent and well-developed empirical theory of human nature bearing on many other aspects of his philosophy, including cognition, moral psychology, politics and philosophy of history.

Anthropology, history, and education
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ISBN: 9780521181211 9780521452502 0521452503 9780511791925 9781107088658 1107088658 0511791925 1316084736 1107084512 0521181216 1107103053 1107094844 1107100550 1107091586 1299707084 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise.


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Phenomenology of the human person
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ISBN: 9780521717663 9780521888912 9780511812804 0511398077 9780511398070 9780511397301 0511397305 0511812809 9780511400988 0511400985 0521888913 0521717663 110718746X 1316099709 1281383856 9786611383855 0511396570 0511398905 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs phenomenology in a highly original way in order to clarify what we are as human agents.


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Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt : an environmental history
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ISBN: 9781107640184 9781107008762 9780511977220 9781139078931 1139078933 1283112884 9781283112888 110700876X 1139064134 1107222036 1139070932 0511977220 1139076655 1139081209 9786613112880 1139083473 113906861X 1107640180 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.


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Kant's lectures on anthropology : a critical guide
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ISBN: 9781316621547 9781107024915 1107024919 9781139176170 1322293481 1316211045 1316190722 1316188868 1316205517 1316209180 1316621545 1316203689 1316207323 1316201813 113917617X Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Kant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant's critical philosophy. They explore a wide range of topics, including Kant's account of cognition, the senses, self-knowledge, freedom, passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism. The volume will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship as well as beyond, and will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Kant, the history of anthropology, the philosophy of psychology and the social sciences.

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