Out of Our Minds
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Out of Our Minds

A History of What We Think and How We Think It

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Out of Our Minds

A History of What We Think and How We Think It

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TO IMAGINE — to see that which is not there — is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps — from the first Homo Sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, he explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalising glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. Fernández-Armesto shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world; and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat.

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Publisher
S&S India
Year
2019
ISBN
9789386797599
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 Mind Out of Matter: The Mainspring of Ideas
  5. Chapter 2 Gathering Thoughts: Thinking Before Agriculture
  6. Chapter 3 Settled Minds: ‘Civilized’ Thinking
  7. Chapter 4 The Great Sages: The First Named Thinkers
  8. Chapter 5 Thinking Faiths: Ideas in a Religious Age
  9. Chapter 6 Return to the Future: Thinking Through Plague and Cold
  10. Chapter 7 Global Enlightenments: Joined-Up Thinking in a Joined-Up World
  11. Chapter 8 The Climacteric of Progress: Nineteenth-Century Certainties
  12. Chapter 9 The Revenge of Chaos: Unstitching Certainty
  13. Chapter 10 The Age of Uncertainty: Twentieth-Century Hesitancies
  14. Prospect: The End of Ideas?
  15. Notes
  16. Copyright