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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
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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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