The Metaphysics of Apes

This book traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and shows how the taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was challenged.

Autorentext
Raymond Corbey is Professor of Epistemology and Anthropology at Leiden University and Lecturer in philosophy at Tilburg University, both in the Netherlands. He has published extensively on the history of philosophical, scientific, and colloquial views of humans, animals, evolution, culture and cultural others, as well as on the history and epistemology of anthropology and the formation of ethnographic museums and collections. He is co-director of the research program Thoughtful Hunters? Neanderthal Behavioural and Cognitive Socioecology. He is the co-editor with Wil Roebroeks of Studying Human Animals: Disciplinary History and Epistemology (2001).

Zusammenfassung
The Metaphysics of Apes, first published in 2005, traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and the ape-like earliest ancestors of present-day humans. It shows how, from the days of Linnaeus to recent research, the sacred and taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was time and again challenged and adjusted.

Inhalt
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Ambiguous Apes: 1. Traditional views of apes; 2. The discovery of apes and early hominids; 3. Citizens and animals; Part II. Crafting the Primate Order: 4. Homo sylvestris; 5. The primate order; 6. Separate again; 7. Speaking apes; Part III. Up From the Ape: 8. 'A grim and grotesque procession'; 9. The monstrous other within; 10. Narrative and paradox; Part IV. Homo's Humanness: 11. The earliest homo; 12. 'Ancients' and 'Moderns'; Part V. 'Symbolic Man' in Ethnology: 13. A discipline's identity; 14. Biological approaches rejected; Part VI. Pan Sapiens?: 15. Fierce or gentle; 16. Tools, mirrors, symbols; 17. Ape and human rights; Part VII. Beyond Dualism: 18. An epistemological reminder; 19. Rethinking dichotomies; Bibliography.

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