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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Geroulanos Stefanos)(Pevná vazba)

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Geroulanos Stefanos)(Pevná vazba)
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EAN: 9781324091455

Books about the origins of humanity 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

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