Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human NatureRoger Smith offers a philosophical and historical response to modern western discussion of what is human. He moves across the disciplinary boundaries, which divide up intellectual life, in pursuit of a conception of 'the human sciences'. |
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