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Michelangelo's Finger : An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence

Raymond Tallis is a renowned polymath: he was listed by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty 'Brains of Britain' and in 2004 Prospect magazine voted him one of Britain's top public intellectual.

In this startlingly original and persuasive book, Raymond Tallis shows that it is easy to underestimate the influence of small things in determining what manner of creatures humans are. He reveals that over time the repeated and multiple effects of the seemingly insignificant can make an enormous difference and argues that the independent movement of the human index finger is one such easily overlooked factor. Indeed, not for nothing is the index finger called 'the forefinger'. It is the one we most naturally deploy when we want to winkle things out of small spaces, but it plays a far more significant role in an action unique to us among primates: pointing.

In Michelangelo's Finger, Raymond Tallis argues that it is through pointing that the index finger made a significant contribution to hominid development and to the creation of a human world separate to the rest of the natural world. Observing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the hugely familiar and awkward encounter between Michelangelo's God and Man through their index fingers, Tallis identifies an intuitive indication of the central role of the index finger in making us unique. Just as the reaching index fingers of God and Man are here made central to the creation of our kind, so Tallis believes that the simple act of pointing is central to our extraordinary evolution.

E-Book

  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1.2.2010

  • Language: Englisch

  • Verlag: Atlantic Books

  • ISBN: 9781848875524


Autor*in:

  • Raymond Tallis

Format:

  • E-Book

Dauer:

  • 123 seiten

Sprache:

Englisch

Kategorien:

  • Gesellschaft und Politik
  • Gesellschaft
  • Krieg und Verteidigung
  • Sozialwissenschaften
  • Gesellschaft und Politik
  • Philosophie
  • Gesellschaft und Politik
  • Psychologie

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