Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Overview. The thesis, the method and related matters
  • Part II: Paleoanthropological case studies. The hermeneutics of tool-making: corporeal and topological concepts
  • On the origin of counting: a re-thinking of upright posture
  • Hominid bipedality and primate sexuality: a further re-thinking of upright posture
  • Corporeal representation
  • On the origin of language
  • Hominid bipedality and sexual selection theory
  • On the conceptual origin of death
  • On the origin and significance of paleolithic cave art
  • Part III: Theoretical and methodological issues. The thesis and its opposition: cultural relativism
  • The thesis and its opposition: institutionalized metaphysical dualism
  • The case for a philosophical anthropology
  • Methodology: the hermeneutical strand
  • Methodology: the genetic phenomenology strand
  • The case for tactile-kinesthetic invariants.