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Out of our minds : what we think and how we came to think it / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
LIBRA B105.T54 F47 2019b
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thought and thinking--History.
- Thought and thinking.
- History.
- Cognition and culture--History.
- Cognition and culture.
- Intellectual life--History.
- Intellectual life.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 464 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- What we think and how we came to think it
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Mind out of matter : the mainspring of ideas
- Gathering thoughts : thinking before agriculture
- Settled minds : 'civilized' thinking
- The great sages : the first named thinkers
- Thinking faiths : ideas in a religious age
- Return to the future : thinking through plague and cold
- Global enlightenments : joined-up thinking in a joined-up world
- The climacteric of progress : nineteenth-century certainties
- The revenge of chaos : unstitching certainty
- The age of uncertainty : twentieth-century hesitancies.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2019"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-452) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520331075
- 0520331079
- OCLC:
- 1088806466
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