Becoming Human: The Development of Language, Self, and Self-Consciousness

This book is a philosophical examination of the stages in our journey from hominid to human. Dealing with the nature and origin of language, self-consciousness, and the religious ideal of a return to Eden, it has a philosophical anthropology approach. It provides an account of our place in nature consistent with both empiricism and mysticism.

Author: J. Canfield
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/28/2007
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.73h x 5.81w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780230552937

About the Author
JOHN V. CANFIELD is Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, author of Wittgenstein: Language and World and The Looking-Glass Self, and editor of The Philosophy of Wittgenstein (in fifteen volumes) and Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the Twentieth Century.