Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The impoverishment of humanity -- 1 Resisting the dissolution of humanity -- I Social imperialism and linguistic terrorism -- Why de-centre humanity? -- The dissolution of humanity -- II Rorty: the ineradicable face of humanity -- III The anthropocentric turn -- Conclusion -- 2 Modernity's man -- Taking the passions out of the preferences -- The return of the exile -- Homo economicus and the circumstances not of his choosing -- Homo sociologicus and normative constraints -- Homo sentiens and homo sapiens: their reunion -- 3 Society's being: humanity as the gift of society -- Harré's anti-modernism: humanity's involvement in a moral order -- The discursive agent: a non-stratified conception of the person -- Humanity and society's conversation -- Socialising our naturalistic being -- Downward conflation in four stages -- Three problems presented by the body -- Part II The emergence of self-consciousness -- 4 The primacy of practice -- Pointers to the primacy of practice -- Natural relations as the source of the sense of self -- (Quadrant 1- realist sequence: the private/individual) -- A Incarnation: self and otherness -- B Praxis, the embodied memory and neuroscience -- C Practice: the wordless source of reason -- Conclusion -- 5 The practical order as pivotal -- Language as practice -- Non-linguistic practice -- Nature, natural relations and embodied knowledge -- The practical order, material culture and practical knowledge -- The social order, propositional culture and discursive knowledge -- Relations between embodied, practical and discursive knowledge -- The 'demonstration' of embodied knowledge -- The 'application' of discursive knowledge in practice -- The practical order as pivotal -- Embodied 'incorporation'.

'Metaphoric' communication -- Conclusion -- Part III The emergence of personal identity -- 6 Humanity and reality: emotions as commentaries on human concerns -- The emergence of three different emotional clusters -- 1 The emergence of emotions in the natural order -- 2 Emotional emergence in the practical order -- 3 Emotional emergence in the social order -- Conclusion -- 7 Personal identity: the inner conversation and emotional elaboration -- The morphogenesis of second-order emotions -- The conversation: ultimate concerns and emotional commentary -- 1 Discernment -- 2 Deliberation -- 3 Dedication -- The emergence of second-order emotions -- Instabilities of the second-order -- Part IV The emergence of social identity -- 8 Agents: active and passive -- The stratified social subject -- Primary Agents: involuntary agency (Quadrants 1-2) - differentiation -- Corporate Agents - collective action: the double morphogenesis (Quadrants 2-3) socialisation -- 9 Actors and commitment -- Social Actors - the triple morphogenesis (Quadrants 3-4) 'personification' -- Persons: Quadrants (4-1) commitment -- Conclusion: the re-emergence of humanity -- The problem of structure and agency -- The problem of subjectivism and objectivism -- In defence of humanity -- The enchantment of being human -- Index.

A revindication of the concept of humanity and the primacy of practice over language.

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