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Title: Stops Short
Review: Abrams book has value, but he stops short in his epistemology of language. Animals do not have language; they have codes. The only animals who use language are depicted in cartoons and in places like Disney World.The author leaves out the philosophical progression from Husserl's phenomenology to that of Martin Heidegger. Heidegger declares that "Language is the House of Being". He was speaking of the being of human beings, not animals. A fundamental flaw with this thinking is that animals have shown no capacity or ability to reflect. Reflection belongs solely to human beings. Likewise, Amazon has never sold a book to an animal.With regard to language, Abram fails to consider the phenomenon of listening. Listening as a canonical aspect of human language receives almost no attention. Yet, it is always present. Gestures, utterances, signs, symbols, tokens are given all of the weight.We need more work here.
