The invention of prehistory: empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins
"Books about human origins 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 d...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Books about human origins 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 and a matriarchal paradise where women ruled, Geroulanos captures the sheer variety and strangeness of the claims 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. Deeming other peoples "savages" allowed for guilt-free violence against them; notions of "killer apes" who were our evolutionary predecessors made war seem natural. The emergence of modern science only accelerated the West's imperialism. The Nazi obsession with race was rooted in archaeological claims about prehistoric Indo-Germans; the notion that colonialized peoples could be "bombed back to the Stone Age" was made possible by not only the technology of flight, but by the anthropological idea that civilization advanced in stages. As Geroulanos argues, accounts of prehistory tell us more about the moment when they are proposed than anything else--and if we hope to start improving our future, we would be better off setting aside the search for how it all started. A necessary, timely, indelible account of how the quest for understanding the origins of humanity became the handmaiden of war and empire, The Invention of Prehistory will forever change how we think about the deep past." -- |
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| 505 | 8 | 0 | |t Introduction: The human epic -- |t Part 1. Scattered shapes of a fabulous past (from the 1750s to the 1870s). The infancy of humanity -- |t Europe's "indigenous" noble savages -- |t The creatures deep time invented -- |t Humanity, divided by three -- |t The conflict of the sciences -- |t Part 2. The concepts that tied it all together (from the 1830s to World War I). Mother love: primitive communism -- |t The disappearing native -- |t Neanderthals, "our doubles" -- |t The thin veneer -- |t On the antiquity of the psyche -- |t Part 3. The horror, Part 1 (from 1900 to the 1960s). The hordes and the flood -- |t Nazis -- |t Bomb them back to the Stone Age -- |t The Manchurian Catholic and the future of the humanity -- |t Part 4. The new scientific ideologies: or the horror, Part 2 (since 1930, and still ongoing). Darwin in the age of UNESCO -- |t A history of cave painting -- |t Killer apes for an age of decolonization -- |t Stone-age computers -- |t The births and ends of patriarchy -- |t Is violence ingrained, and how? -- |t Epilogue: A storm blowing from paradise |
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Contents Introduction The Human Epic 1 Part I Scattered Shapes of a Fabulous Past (from the 1750s to the 1870s) 1. The Infancy of Humanity 15 2. Europe’s “Indigenous” Noble Savages 29 3. The Creatures Deep Time Invented 45 4. Humanity, Divided by Three 63 5· The Conflict of the Sciences 75 Part II The Concepts That Tied It All Together (from the 1830s to world war i) 6. Mother Love: Primitive Communism 95 7· The Disappearing Native 115 8. Neanderthals, “Our Doubles” 131 9- The Thin Veneer 161 10. On the Antiquity of the Psyche 177
Part III The Horror, Part I (from 1900 to the 1960s) 11. The Hordes and the Hood 195 12. Nasis 213 13. Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age! 233 14. The Manchurian Catholic and the Future of Humanity 249 Part IV The New Scientific Ideologies; or The Horror, Part II (SINCE 1930, AND STILL ONGOING) 15- Darwin in the Age of UNESCO 267 16. A History of Cave Painting 283 17. Killer Apes for an Age of Decolonisation 311 18. Stone-Age Computers 331 19. The Births and Ends of Patriarchy 353 20. Is Violence Ingrained, and How? 369 Epilogue A Storm Blowing from Paradise 389 Acknowledgments 403 Notes 409 Image Credits 461 Index 467 |
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| contents | Introduction: The human epic -- Part 1. Scattered shapes of a fabulous past (from the 1750s to the 1870s). The infancy of humanity -- Europe's "indigenous" noble savages -- The creatures deep time invented -- Humanity, divided by three -- The conflict of the sciences -- Part 2. The concepts that tied it all together (from the 1830s to World War I). Mother love: primitive communism -- The disappearing native -- Neanderthals, "our doubles" -- The thin veneer -- On the antiquity of the psyche -- Part 3. The horror, Part 1 (from 1900 to the 1960s). The hordes and the flood -- Nazis -- Bomb them back to the Stone Age -- The Manchurian Catholic and the future of the humanity -- Part 4. The new scientific ideologies: or the horror, Part 2 (since 1930, and still ongoing). Darwin in the age of UNESCO -- A history of cave painting -- Killer apes for an age of decolonization -- Stone-age computers -- The births and ends of patriarchy -- Is violence ingrained, and how? -- Epilogue: A storm blowing from paradise |
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| spelling | Geroulanos, Stefanos 1979- Verfasser (DE-588)141481536 aut The invention of prehistory empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins Stefanos Geroulanos First edition New York, NY Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company [2024] 498 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm txt rdacontent sti rdacontent cri rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Introduction: The human epic -- Part 1. Scattered shapes of a fabulous past (from the 1750s to the 1870s). The infancy of humanity -- Europe's "indigenous" noble savages -- The creatures deep time invented -- Humanity, divided by three -- The conflict of the sciences -- Part 2. The concepts that tied it all together (from the 1830s to World War I). Mother love: primitive communism -- The disappearing native -- Neanderthals, "our doubles" -- The thin veneer -- On the antiquity of the psyche -- Part 3. The horror, Part 1 (from 1900 to the 1960s). The hordes and the flood -- Nazis -- Bomb them back to the Stone Age -- The Manchurian Catholic and the future of the humanity -- Part 4. The new scientific ideologies: or the horror, Part 2 (since 1930, and still ongoing). Darwin in the age of UNESCO -- A history of cave painting -- Killer apes for an age of decolonization -- Stone-age computers -- The births and ends of patriarchy -- Is violence ingrained, and how? -- Epilogue: A storm blowing from paradise "Books about human origins 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 and a matriarchal paradise where women ruled, Geroulanos captures the sheer variety and strangeness of the claims 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. Deeming other peoples "savages" allowed for guilt-free violence against them; notions of "killer apes" who were our evolutionary predecessors made war seem natural. The emergence of modern science only accelerated the West's imperialism. The Nazi obsession with race was rooted in archaeological claims about prehistoric Indo-Germans; the notion that colonialized peoples could be "bombed back to the Stone Age" was made possible by not only the technology of flight, but by the anthropological idea that civilization advanced in stages. As Geroulanos argues, accounts of prehistory tell us more about the moment when they are proposed than anything else--and if we hope to start improving our future, we would be better off setting aside the search for how it all started. A necessary, timely, indelible account of how the quest for understanding the origins of humanity became the handmaiden of war and empire, The Invention of Prehistory will forever change how we think about the deep past." -- Geschichte 1750-2000 gnd rswk-swf Vor- und Frühgeschichte Fach (DE-588)4121886-3 gnd rswk-swf Human beings / Origin Anthropology and history Prehistoric peoples / History Civilization / Philosophy Ethnophilosophy / History Violence / History Racism / History Science and civilization Imperialism and science Civilization / History Êtres humains / Origines Civilisation / Histoire Violence / Histoire Anthropologie et histoire Racisme / Histoire Sciences et civilisation Impérialisme et sciences Civilisation / Philosophie Ethnophilosophie / Histoire Informational works Documents d'information Vor- und Frühgeschichte Fach (DE-588)4121886-3 s Geschichte 1750-2000 z DE-604 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=035105562&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Geroulanos, Stefanos 1979- The invention of prehistory empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins Introduction: The human epic -- Part 1. Scattered shapes of a fabulous past (from the 1750s to the 1870s). The infancy of humanity -- Europe's "indigenous" noble savages -- The creatures deep time invented -- Humanity, divided by three -- The conflict of the sciences -- Part 2. The concepts that tied it all together (from the 1830s to World War I). Mother love: primitive communism -- The disappearing native -- Neanderthals, "our doubles" -- The thin veneer -- On the antiquity of the psyche -- Part 3. The horror, Part 1 (from 1900 to the 1960s). The hordes and the flood -- Nazis -- Bomb them back to the Stone Age -- The Manchurian Catholic and the future of the humanity -- Part 4. The new scientific ideologies: or the horror, Part 2 (since 1930, and still ongoing). Darwin in the age of UNESCO -- A history of cave painting -- Killer apes for an age of decolonization -- Stone-age computers -- The births and ends of patriarchy -- Is violence ingrained, and how? -- Epilogue: A storm blowing from paradise Vor- und Frühgeschichte Fach (DE-588)4121886-3 gnd |
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| title_alt | Introduction: The human epic -- Part 1. Scattered shapes of a fabulous past (from the 1750s to the 1870s). The infancy of humanity -- Europe's "indigenous" noble savages -- The creatures deep time invented -- Humanity, divided by three -- The conflict of the sciences -- Part 2. The concepts that tied it all together (from the 1830s to World War I). Mother love: primitive communism -- The disappearing native -- Neanderthals, "our doubles" -- The thin veneer -- On the antiquity of the psyche -- Part 3. The horror, Part 1 (from 1900 to the 1960s). The hordes and the flood -- Nazis -- Bomb them back to the Stone Age -- The Manchurian Catholic and the future of the humanity -- Part 4. The new scientific ideologies: or the horror, Part 2 (since 1930, and still ongoing). Darwin in the age of UNESCO -- A history of cave painting -- Killer apes for an age of decolonization -- Stone-age computers -- The births and ends of patriarchy -- Is violence ingrained, and how? -- Epilogue: A storm blowing from paradise |
| title_auth | The invention of prehistory empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins |
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| title_full | The invention of prehistory empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins Stefanos Geroulanos |
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| title_short | The invention of prehistory |
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