Description: "Attempts to fill a major lacuna in cognitive archaeology by identifying when self-consciousness first appeared in the archaeological record"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: ENDORSEMENTS
"Given Lambros Malafouris's track record, it is not at all strange that he has provided an insightful and innovative rethinking of self and self-consciousness. His account is an archaeological and process-oriented one; it overturns classic Cartesian and cognitivist principles of being a self-entity in favor of a truly transactional self-becoming, and it opens up a new possibility for self-understanding."--Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis "This is a beautiful book by one of our most inventive and profound thinkers. It is undisciplined because it transcends disciplinary limitations, and it is prohuman even as it resists all forms of anthropomorphism. This is a manifesto, but also an invitation, engaging the reader materially with the ways we become what we are, individually and as a species, in our material engagements."
--Alva Noë, author of Action in Perception and The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are