On deep history and the brain:
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Main Author: Smail, Daniel Lord (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2008
Series:Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities
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Item Description:"A Caravan book"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index
Introduction: toward reunion in history -- The grip of sacred history -- Resistance -- Between Darwin and Lamarck -- The new neurohistory -- Civilization and psychotropy -- Epilogue: Looking ahead
When does history begin? What characterizes it? This book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. It lays out a new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 271 pages)
ISBN:0520934164
1282359347
1435603982
9780520934160
9781282359345
9781435603981

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