What is a human? : language, mind, and culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Gee, James Paul, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020] |
| Description: | 1 online resource () : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12416855 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Part I
- 1 Terman
- References
- 2 Humans
- The Human Brain
- The Associational Brain
- Other Brains
- Homeostasis
- Takeaways
- References
- 3 More Than Animals?
- Consciousness
- References
- 4 Human-Made Monsters
- A Mad Experiment: Monsters
- Environments Transform Humans
- Baboons and Status
- Montaigne
- References
- 5 Conclusion to Part I
- Part II
- 6 Fetishes
- From Harlow to Fetishes
- Fetishes Led to Human Thinking
- References
- 7 Examples of Fetishes
- Grades
- Money
- Membership
- References
- 8 Doubling Fetishes
- Shamans and Symbols
- References
- 9 The Imaginarium
- Bene and Me
- What I Would Be Thinking If It Were Me
- Bene and I Compared
- References
- 10 The Conscious Brain
- References
- 11 The Gang of Six
- The Ghost in the Machine
- References
- 12 Language
- The Deepest Fetishes About Language: Meaning Is "In the Head"
- The Deepest Fetishes About Language: Language Is a Picture of Reality
- Conclusion
- References
- 13 Stress and the State
- Stress
- Politics
- State-Based Ideology and Civics
- The State as Fetish
- The Mystery of Civil Obedience
- References
- 14 Another Attempt to Answer Our Question
- Normative Rationality: Thinking with Other People in Our Heads
- Normative Morality: Thinking with Culture in Our Head
- "Crowning Achievement"
- References
- 15 Conclusion to Part II
- References
- Part III
- 16 Messages from the Dead
- An Interlude on Poetry and Me
- Slow Language
- A Poem as a Message from the Past
- References
- 17 Embodied Meaning
- Specific Universals
- References
- 18 Specific Universals
- References
- 19 Morality
- References
- 20 The Examined Life
- Mundanity
- References
- 21 Conclusion to Part III
- Part IV
- 22 Plug-and-Play
- What Is Plugging and Playing?
- Morality
- Flourishing
- References
- 23 Morality Again
- Anonymous Society
- References
- 24 Affinity
- Affinity Space
- Affinity as a New Glue
- References
- 25 Conclusions to Part IV
- 26 Conclusion to Book
- Afterword: Goodbye
- References
- Index
