Michelangelo's finger : an exploration of everyday transcendence / Raymond Tallis.
Publication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2010.Description: xxii, 166 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780300166484 (alk. paper)
- 0300166486 (alk. paper)
- P117.7 .T35 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-158) and index.
How to point : a primer for Martians -- What it takes to be a pointer -- Do animals get the point? -- People who don't point -- Pinning language to the world -- Pointing and power -- Assisted pointing and pointing by proxy -- The transcendent animal : pointing and the beyond.
Proposes that the index finger and the gesture of pointing distinguishes humans from other species, and that the symbolism behind different types of pointing may have played an important part in human evolution and development.
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