The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Geroulanos, Stefanos
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Geroulanos, Stefanos

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new...
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Author: Stefanos Geroulanos
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Language: English
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Geroulanos, Stefanos

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

$95.40
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Geroulanos, Stefanos

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

$95.40
Author: Stefanos Geroulanos
Format: MP3 CD
Language: English
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Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory--and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world. The very idea that there was a human past before recorded history only emerged with the Enlightenment, when European thinkers began to reject faith-based notions of humanity and history in favor of supposedly more empirical ideas about the world. From the "state of nature" and Romantic notions of virtuous German barbarians to theories about Neanderthals, killer apes, and a matriarchal paradise where women ruled, Geroulanos captures the sheer variety and strangeness of the ideas that animated many of the major thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx. Yet as Geroulanos shows, such ideas became, for the most part, the ideological foundations of repressive regimes and globe-spanning empires.

Author: Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Published: 04/02/2024
Binding Type: MP3 CD
ISBN: 9798874760496

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