People Are STRANGE
Material Engagement and the Creation of Self-Consciousness
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2026
Summary
A groundbreaking exploration of self-consciousness through material engagement theory, redefining what it means to be human in a constantly changing world.
The making of human consciousness and the question of self-becoming presents a remarkable complication along the continuum of sentient matter. Self-consciousness is an oddity that both unites humans with and differentiates them from other modes of conscious existence. Lambros Malafouris’s evocative proposal is that people are STRAN…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553902 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262553902 |
| Author: | Lambros Malafouris |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Given Lambros Malafouris’s track record, it is not at all strange that he has provided an insightful and innovative rethinking of self and self-consciousness. His account is an archaeological and process-oriented one; it overturns classic Cartesian and cognitivist principles of being a self-entity in favor of a truly transactional self-becoming, and it opens up a new possibility for self-understanding.”
—Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis
“This is a beautiful book by one of our most inventive and profound thinkers. It is undisciplined because it transcends disciplinary limitations, and it is prohuman even as it resists all forms of anthropomorphism. This is a manifesto, but also an invitation, engaging the reader materially with the ways we become what we are, individually and as a species, in our material engagements.”
—Alva Noë, author of Action in Perception and The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
About The Author
Lambros Malafouris
Lambros Malafouris is Professor of Cognitive and Anthropological Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology and Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He is the author of How Things Shape the Mind (MIT Press) and is Principal Investigator of “HANDMADE- Understanding Creative Gesture in Pottery Making” funded by the European Research Council.
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