TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westling,Louise
TI  - The Logos of the Living World: Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language 
T2  - Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
SN  - 9780823255658
AV  - B2430.M3764 W47 2014
U1  - 194 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Animals (Philosophy)
KW  - Animal Studies
KW  - Environment
KW  - Philosophy & Theory
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Bacchae
KW  - Gilgamesh
KW  - Life of Pi
KW  - Meleau_Ponty
KW  - animal studies
KW  - animality
KW  - animals and culture
KW  - animals
KW  - human evolution
KW  - language
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. A Philosophy of Life --; 2. Animal Kin --; 3. Language Is Everywhere --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255689?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823255689
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ER  -