ON DEEP HISTORY AND THE BRAIN

Book ID/图书代码： 13520007B12533

English Summary/英文概要： When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written 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. Daniel Lord Smail argues that, in the wake of the decade of the brain and the bestselling historical work of scientists like Jared Diamond, the time has come for fundamentally new ways of thinking about our past. He shows how recent work in evolution and paleohistory makes it possible to join the deep past with the recent past and abandon, once and for all, the idea of prehistory. Making an enormous literature accessible to the general reader, he lays out a bold new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 過去數十年人類大腦的覺醒以及許多以科學宏觀角度詮釋歷史的科普書籍，例如賈德·戴蒙著作《大崩壞》的暢銷，我們看待過去歷史的方法已經有了巨大的改變。作者奠基於書寫、文明化與歷史意識等，以神經科學與神經生物學的角度，全新的方式來解讀歷史的起源與進程，提供一種能跳脫出以往宗教的歷史架構模式。

Awards/获奖情况："This is surely a new paradigm for the study of history that will be regarded as revolutionary but which is also well justified. To my knowledge, no other book integrates the study of human history with principles of biological and cultural evolution on such an ambitious scale."--David Sloan
Wilson, author of Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society
"This is one of the most exciting books I’ve read in years. It is so accessible, so groundbreaking, so stimulating, so important that I imagine the next generation of historians will be deeply influenced by what Smail has to say here. Simply dazzling."--Lynn Hunt, author of Inventing Human Rights

About the Author/作者介绍： Daniel Lord Smail哈佛大學歷史學教授。着有Imaginary Cartographies (1999)曾獲美國歷史協會 (American Historical Association) 頒發 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize以及社會科學歷史協會(Social Science History Association)的President’s Award與The Consumption of Justice (2003)曾獲法律與社會協會 (Law and Society Association) 頒發James Willard Hurst Prize。

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