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Pugnacious Preface

Part I: The World

Chapter 1 "I Am I Because My Little Dog Knows Me": Of Apes and Essences

Chapter 2 "Me against My Brother; Me and My Brother against Our Cousins; Me, My Brother and Our Cousins....": The Genetic Construction of Sociality

Chapter 3 On Discourse and the Darwin Machine: The Matter and the Chatter of the Mind

PART II: THE BOOK

Chapter 4 "What Is Art For?": Narrative and the Ludic Reader

Chapter 5 Tragedy: The Ape Gets Serious

Chapter 6 Comedy and the Relaxed Open-Mouth Display

Chapter 7 Gilding the Mirror: Mimesis and Philosophy in A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Plainspoken Postscript

Notes

Works Cited

Index