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On deep history and the brain /

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 neuroscien...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smail, Daniel Lord
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Series:Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: toward reunion in history
  • The grip of sacred history
  • Resistance
  • Between Darwin and Lamarck
  • The new neurohistory
  • Civilization and psychotropy
  • Epilogue: Looking ahead.