Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: In Praise of Improvisation -- Premise -- Phylogenetic Knowledge -- Expressive Singularity -- The Art of Improvising -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: On Subjectivity -- Premise -- Subjectivity as a Perspective on the World -- Subjectivity and Agency -- Evaluation as an Expression of Subjectivity -- The Subject's Protagonism -- In Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The Role of Heritage -- Premise -- Being a Body -- Heteronomy -- Belonging and Individuality -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Being Interested -- Premise -- Experience as Dialogue -- The Animal as a Desiring Entity -- The Sentimental Condition of Animality -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: The Ownership Principle -- Premise -- Indeterminacy as a Space of Subjectivity -- The "Need" Character -- Hedonism and Somatisation of the World -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Endowments as Tools -- Premise -- The Problem of Endowments -- The Cognitive Level of Subjectivity -- From Automatism to Tool -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: The Territories of the Mind -- Premise -- The Evolution of the Mind -- Being a Mind -- The Propositional Model -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Leadership in Learning -- Premise -- Learning: Between Ethology and Neuroscience -- Learning Means Being Present -- The Laws of Learning -- Learning and Ontogeny -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Animal Orientation -- Premise -- The Four Questions to Explain Expression -- The Fifth Factor: Having Preferences
-- The Sixth Factor: Orientation Through Knowledge -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Niche Construction -- Premise -- Niche Construction Theory -- Instinct and Intelligence -- The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis -- Creativity and Niche Construction -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: Plural Intelligence -- Premise -- Intellectual Diversity -- Culture in the Animal World -- The Use of Tools Among Animals.
Works Cited -- Chapter 12: The Conditions of Creativity -- Premise -- The Emancipation of Animality -- Going Back to the Subject -- The Subject as Presence -- Spaces of Creative Freedom -- The Joy of Living -- Works Cited -- Index.