LEADER 03264nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910814888103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-5568-9 010 $a0-8232-6120-4 010 $a0-8232-5569-7 010 $a0-8232-5567-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823255689 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418094 035 $a(EBL)1481019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981128 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11611476 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981128 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10968962 035 $a(PQKB)11119725 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292640 035 $a(OCoLC)859158966 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27584 035 $a(DE-B1597)555356 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823255689 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10747400 035 $a(OCoLC)923764053 035 $a(OCoLC)960757936 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4703381 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239845 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1481019 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4703381 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418094 100 $a20130807d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe logos of the living world $eMerleau-Ponty, animals, and language /$fLouise Westling 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 0 $aGroundworks : ecological issues in philosophy and theology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5566-2 311 $a0-8232-5565-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPhilosophy of life -- Animal kin -- Language is everywhere. 330 $aToday we urgently need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other animals. This book puts Maurice Merleau-Ponty?s philosophy into dialogue with literature, evolutionary biology, and animal studies. In a radical departure from most critical animal studies, it argues for evolutionary continuity between human cultural and linguistic behaviors and the semiotic activities of other animals.In his late work, Derrida complained of philosophers who denied that animals possessed such faculties, but he never investigated the wealth of scientific studies of actual animal behavior. Most animal studies theorists still fail to do this. Yet more than fifty years ago, Merleau-Ponty carefully examined the philosophical consequences of scientific animal studies, with profound implications for human language and culture. For him, ?animality is the logos of the sensible world: an incorporated meaning.? Human being is inseparable from animality.This book differs from other studies of Merleau-Ponty by emphasizing his lifelong attention to science. It shows how his attention to evolutionary biology and ethology anticipated recent studies of animal cognition, culture, and communication. 410 0$aGroundworks (FUP) 676 $a113/.8 700 $aWestling$b Louise Hutchings$01676282 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814888103321 996 $aThe logos of the living world$94042384 997 $aUNINA