Y. N. HARARI, FROM SAPIENS TO DEUS

Jacques COULARDEAU

doi:10.24193/subbphilo.2018.3.02

Authors

Jacques COULARDEAU Paris Universities. E-mail: dondaine@orange.fr

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2018.3.02

Keywords:

articulated language, out-of-Black-Africa, mind/language, phylogeny, psychogenesis.

Abstract

Y. N. Harari, From Sapiens to Deus. This article considers the two most recent books by Y. N. Harari, Sapiens (2011) and Homo Deus (2015) and tries to critically discuss the main themes: the cognitive, agricultural, scientific (including industrial), and humanist revolutions. The author’s fundamental ignorance of the central development of language and mind within the human communicational situation prevents him from capturing the real dynamism of Homo Sapiens’ emergence and his/her future. This leads the author to a purely dystopic vision of the future.

REZUMAT. Y. N. Harari, De la Sapiens la Deus. Contribuția noastră se îndreaptă spre cele două cărți recente ale lui Y. N. Harari, Sapiens (2011) și Homo Deus (2015) spre a propune o reevaluare critică a principalelor teme: revoluțiile cognitive, agricole, științifice (inclusiv industriale) și umaniste. Ignoranța fundamentală a autorului cu privire la dezvoltarea centrală a limbajului și a minții în cadrul situației comunicării umane îl împiedică să surprindă dinamismul real al apariției lui Homo Sapiens și al viitorului său, ceea ce îl conduce pe autor spre o viziune pur distopică a viitorului.

Cuvinte cheie: limbajul articulat, ‘out-of-black-africa’, mintea / limbajul, filogenia, psihogeneza.

Author Biography

Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities. E-mail: dondaine@orange.fr

PhD. Germanic linguistics and Foreign Language Didactics, Lille III U. and Bordeaux II U. Visiting lecturer in various Paris Universities, particularly Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne U. Extensive publications in English and general linguistics, English and American literature, the emergence of Homo Sapiens and the phylogeny and psychogenetics of human language. E-mail: dondaine@orange.fr

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