Contents
Foreword
Prelude
1. On Animals and Apes
2. On Dialogue and Consciousness
3. On the Flavors of Consciousness
4. On Language and Apes
5. On Free Will
Annex: A Timeline of Ape Language Research
Laurent Dubreuil is professor of comparative literature, Romance studies, and cognitive science at Cornell University. His many books include The Intellective Space (Minnesota, 2015).
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh was senior scientist at the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary and is co-chair president of the Bonobo Hope initiative.
"These dialogues provide unique insight into ape language research.
Stimulating language in apes is too ramified to be controlled
intellectually or restricted to a laboratory. It requires
spontaneity, taking participants beyond the known. Even
communicating the work requires spontaneity, for the intellect does
not know what happened. You will be amazed at what these dialogues
reveal about humanness beyond humanity."—Pär Segerdahl, Uppsala
University"Dialogues on the Human Ape demolishes the simple
human/animal dichotomy and the idealization that only humans ‘have’
language, as though language is some kind of all-or-none essence.
These compelling conversations between Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and
Laurent Dubreuil will open minds and challenge assumptions about
what it means to be a human ape."—Terrence W. Deacon, University of
California, Berkeley
"This book appears in an important series on Post-humanities, so
academics and researchers in that field would certainly find much
value in this volume as well. The book is intellectually and
emotionally engaging, well written, and nicely organized."—ASEBL
Journal"The book explores the continuities between the ape and
human minds, addressing why language matters to consciousness, free
will and the formation of the self."—Cornell Chronicle
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