The hand : a philosophical inquiry into human being

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements = ⅷ
• Introduction = 1
• Overture
• 1 Grasping the Hand = 21
• 1.1 Preliminary Grapplings = 21
• 1.2 The Manipulative Hand = 23
• 1.3 The Knowing Hand = 27
• 1.4 The Communicative Hand = 31
• 1.5 From Prehension to Apprehension = 32
• PartⅠ Brachio-Chiral
• 2 The Armed Hand = 47
• 2.1 Two Fingers to Over-Digitisation = 47
• 2.2 The Genius of Reaching = 49
• 2.3 Mechanism and Agency = 60
• 3 The Talking Hand = 72
• 3.1 Introduction : The Sign-Making Animal = 72
• 3.2 Gesturing = 76
• 3.3 Clapping and Other Hand Shouting = 97
• 3.4 Handsome = 103
• 4 Hand Talking to Hand = 111
• 4.1 Manucaption = 111
• 4.2 The Dialogue of the Left Hand with the Right = 117
• 4.3 The Interlocutors = 122
• 4.4 The Hand Talking to its Self or the Self = 125
• 5 The Playful Hand = 135
• 5.1 Introduction = 135
• 5.2 The Carnal Hand = 135
• 5.3 Hand Games = 146
• 5.4 Post-script : Handy(like) = 149
• PartⅡ Chiro-Digital
• 6 One-Finger Exercises = 157
• 6.1 Introduction = 157
• 6.2 Thumb = 158
• 6.3 Index = 161
• 6.4 Middle = 166
• 6.5 Ring = 167
• 6.6 Little = 169
• 7 Polydactylic Exercises = 173
• 7.1 Introduction : The Ordeal of Precision = 173
• 7.2 Two Fingers = 177
• 7.3 Three Fingers = 179
• 7.4 Four Fingers = 183
• 7.5 Five Fingers = 185
• 7.6 Ten Fingers = 189
• 8 Abstract Digits = 195
• 8.1 Introduction and Disclaimer = 195
• 8.2 The Number Sense : From Magnitudes to Digits = 196
• 8.3 Digits and Digits = 201
• 8.4 Units : From Counting to Measurement = 209
• 8.5 The Unreasonable Power of the Precision of Abstract Digits = 212
• 9 The Tool of Tools = 218
• 9.1 Prologue : The Self-Shaping Hand = 218
• 9.2 Tool-using, Toolmaking and the Tool of Tools = 222
• 9.3 Tools and the Origin of Human Culture = 230
• 9.4 Eolith to SuperCray = 232
• 9.5 Tools and Language = 237
• 9.6 Brain, Tools and Language = 241
• 9.7 Beyond Biology and Biologism = 244
• 9.8 Epilogue : Handicraft = 248
• Appendix : Karl Marx and the Collectivisation of Human Consciousness in Tools = 258
• PartⅢ Towards Chiro-Philosophy
• 10 Getting a Grip on the Conscious Human Agent = 263
• 10.1 Recapitulation = 263
• 10.2 The Dawn of the Conscious Human Agent = 273
• 10.3 From Biology to Philosophical Anthropology = 297
• Coda
• 11 Waving Farewell to the Hand = 315
• 11.1 Introduction = 315
• 11.2 The Paradox of Handyman : (1)Part of and Separate from Nature = 317
• 11.3 The Paradox of Handyman : (2)Subject to and yet Manipulating Nature's Laws = 321
• 11.4 The Balance Sheet : (1)Knowledge. Does the Hand Grasp the Truth? = 325
• 11.5 The Balance Sheet : (2)Moral and Spritual = 332
• 11.6 Handing On = 343
• 11.7 A Last Wave Farewell = 347
• Index = 353