2007, ISBN: 9780231143127

London England: Hutchinson of London. Very Good/Good. 1959. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback Hardcover. First Edition. The Story o… Meer...

London England: Hutchinson of London. Very Good/Good. 1959. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback Hardcover. First Edition. The Story of Man. Human Evolution to the End of the Stone Age. Foxing to end inside covers. Wear and small tears to edge of D/J. Foxing to back D/J. The book begins by setting out the modern evidence for man's physical ancestry, putting Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, Heidelberg Man and the rest in their places. Mr. Mellersh then tells of man's first material achievements, his manipulation of flint; then come his spiritual achievements; his conquest of speech, his arts. An account of vae paintings leads to a discussion of magic and taboo. We follow man's further achievements, through the heroics of the great hunting age to the skills of the first farmers, the neolithic emblems that we now know as megalithic monuments. Always in his story of our ancestors' achievements Mr. Mellersh seeks to see beyond the bare facts and to explain what he sees in terms of mind and spirit. Man he visualizes, for all his animal ancestry, as essentially a thinker, a seer of visions - a 'creature of imagination'. Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) ., Hutchinson of London, 1959, 2.75, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Fine Condition. 14.8 x 21.7 x 1.8 cm. Cover shows light signs of use, but is unmarked and undamaged. Internally, clean and fresh, with unmarked and uncreased pages. Overall, very sound and presentable. Publisher's note: "Derrida wrote extensively on "the question of the animal." In particular, he challenged Heidegger's, Husserl's, and other philosophers' work on the subject, questioning their phenomenological criteria for distinguishing humans from animals. Examining a range of Derrida's writings, including his most recent L'animal que donc je suis, as well as Aporias, Of Spirit, Rams, and Rogues, Leonard Lawlor reconstructs a portrait of Derrida's views on animality and their intimate connection to his thinking on ethics, names and singularity, sovereignty, and the notion of a common world."--Jacket Size: 14.8 x 21.7 x 1.8 cm. 171 pp. Text is in English. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Philosophy; Derrida, Jacques; Animals (Philosophy); Psychology; Human behavior; English Language; ISBN: 0231143125. ISBN/EAN: 9780231143127. Add. Inventory No: 240128RMR012079. . 9780231143127, Columbia University Press, 2007, 5<