30.2465, Books: The Normative Animal?: Roughley, Bayertz (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:13:01
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: The Normative Animal?: Roughley, Bayertz (eds.)

 


Title: The Normative Animal? 
Subtitle: On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms 
Series Title: Foundations of Human Interaction  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-normative-animal-9780190846466 


Editor: Neil Roughley
Editor: Kurt Bayertz

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190846466 Pages: 392 Price: U.S. $ 74


Abstract:

It is often claimed that humans are rational, linguistic, cultural, or moral
creatures. What these characterizations may all have in common is the more
fundamental claim that humans are normative animals, in the sense that they
are creatures whose lives are structured at a fundamental level by their
relationships to norms. The various capacities singled out by discussion of
rational, linguistic, cultural, or moral animals might then all essentially
involve an orientation to obligations, permissions and prohibitions. And, if
this is so, then perhaps it is a basic susceptibility, or proclivity to
normative or deontic regulation of thought and behavior that enables humans to
develop the various specific features of their life form.

This volume of new essays investigates the claim that humans are essentially
normative animals in this sense. The contributors do so by looking at the
nature and relations of three types of norms, or putative norms-social, moral,
and linguistic-and asking whether they might all be different expressions of
one basic structure unique to humankind. These questions are posed by
philosophers, primatologists, behavioral biologists, psychologists, linguists,
and cultural anthropologists, who have collaborated on this topic for many
years. The contributors are committed to the idea that understanding
normativity is a two-way process, involving a close interaction between
conceptual clarification and empirical research.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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