EMBODIMENT IN EVOLUTION AND CULTURE

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Full title :EMBODIMENT IN EVOLUTION AND CULTURE.

Summary

From its beginnings, the theory of evolution has unsettled fundamental anthropological assumptions about the place of human beings in nature. The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered by the philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century. Their attempts were to hold on even more resolutely to the special status of humans as beings 'open towards the world'. Today, evolutionary and philosophical anthropology have moved closer together via the paradigm of embodiment. Building on embodied cognitive science, this volume aims to establish how far the human mind and human cultural cognition can be attributed to the structures of human existence, structures which have emerged in the course of evolution and have in turn been affected by culture. The traditional dualism of nature and culture is transformed into an explanation of an evolutionary process in which body and mind are understood to be intertwined and mutually constitutive.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Eisenbrauns
Place of Publication:Place of publication not identified
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783161549014, 3161549015
oclc:ocn966562586
LC Classification:B818
Dewey Decimal:575

1. Philosophical concepts and perspectives of embodiment -- 2. The embodied evolution of symbolic competence -- 3. Embodiment as a bridging concept for evolutionary and historical anthropology -- 4. The mutual intertwinement of nature and culture.

Subjects

Anthropologie -- Congrès anthropologie philosophique -- congrès anthropology Anthropology -- Congresses Cognition Cognition -- Congrès Cognition -- Congresses Conference papers and proceedings Corps humain -- Congrès. -- Aspect soci… Corps humain -- Congrès. -- Aspect symb… Ethnologie -- Congrès Ethnology Ethnology -- Congresses Human body -- Congresses. -- Social asp… Human body -- Congresses. -- Symbolic a… Human body -- Social aspects Human body -- Symbolic aspects Mind and body Mind and body -- Congresses Philosophical anthropology