As We Know It - Couverture souple

Kohn, Dr Marek

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1862073686 ISBN 13 : 9781862073685

Editeur : Granta Books, 2000

Synopsis

As We Know It is an account of how the human mind has evolved. It is a theory of mind: it tells us how our immediate ancestors might have thought and seen the world in the absence of language, gods or culture. Marek Kohn relates that ancient heritage to our humanity and examines the influence of our hominid past on our own behaviour, as creatures who speak, symbolize and create. Central to the book is a meditation on the handaxe, crafted again and again for hundreds of thousands of years by our proto-human ancestors. In his reconstruction of the uses and meaning of the handaxe, Kohn takes us into an alien world that is strangely close to our own. This is a work of sociobiology insofar as it applies Darwinism to human culture. Unlike almost all works of 'evolutionary psychology', however, it seeks to recapture Darwinism from the political right and to show that a better understanding of our evolutionary history need not lead to an imposing of limits on who we are and what we may become.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marek Kohn is the author of several books, including Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground, The Race Gallery and As We Know it. He lives in Brighton with his family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862073686
• ISBN 13: 9781862073685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible