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Introduction
1. THE MIND OF THE HUNTER 30,000-10,000BC Excavating the Earlise Ideas Eating people Give me a sign Parting the mist All things invisible ... Animal magic Eat, Drink Fair exchange 2. OUT OF THE MUD 10.000-1,000BC From Settlement to Civilization Drowning the Deer Written on the Wind Outside Eden ... Judgment Day Deo Volente Dreamtime 3. THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA 1,000BC - 0AD The age of sages All is one Books of Truth The New illusion All change ... Power of Thought No God but God Love Above 4. THINKING RELIGIONS 0-1400AD The rise of the Great faiths Big brotherhood Word made flesh One in substance God's free love Lighting flash ... Mu Sacred Art Holy Terror Christian soldiers 5. BACK TO THE FUTURE 1400-1800 Back to the future Fool's God Small world Here comes the sun Prove me wrong .. Reality Unveiled Perfect Harmony Back to Nature 6. THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS 1800-1900 19th-Century frustrations My country The dollhouse Extreme Optimism Class struggle The greatest good ... East meets West Asian Renaissance American Dream Manifest Destiny Dr. Strangelove 7. THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY 1900-2000 Chaos Restored Warped universe Uncertainty Chaos theory Common Sense ... Fast talking The Great satan Global Village INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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-From Publishers Weekly
"Ideas are at least as powerful agents for change as material exigencies, economic needs, environmental constraints, and all the other proposed determinants." So writes noted Oxford historian Fernandez-Armesto in this overview of scores of ideas dating back to prehistoric times. The ideas examined are not always soothing or progressive: cannibalism ("typically...human and cultural"); a revival of interest in ancient Egyptian magic during the Renaissance (useful because ultimately "alchemy fed into chemistry, astrology into astronomy"); and anti-Semitism. The book is culturally inclusive: the Zen concept of Mu (the way masters "baffled their pupils into enlightenment") is here, as is jihad. Each idea is examined in a generously illustrated two-page spread, with suggested readings and links to other ideas in the book. This wide-ranging volume offers great browsing and a panoply of ideas for consideration. |