Father, in a Far Distant Time I Find You: Utopian novel exploring the impact of evolutionary theory on human nature - Brossura

Johnston, Shaun

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0977947017 ISBN 13: 9780977947010

Casa editrice: Evolved Self Publishing, 2002

Riassunto

The classic tradition of the British utopian novel is here applied to evolutionary theory. We're four thousand years in the future. For his end-of-school report Gregory Dumont reviews history since the collapse of the Modern World (our time), in particular focusing on the sequence of World Figures that comes to dominate history for most of that time. His father, a history teacher, was right up until his recent death fascinated by these figures. Gregory had always refused to share his father's passion, but in the course of writing his report Gregory comes to appreciate that passion, and his father.Evolutionary theory developed over the past two centuries in a series of steps, from Lyell's concern with geology up to modern interest in the evolution of culture. "Father..." projects those steps onto a succession of civilizations, each dominated by its own World Figure, making explicit the implications for human nature of each step in that development. "Father..." raises the question, how far does our evolutionary origin story shape what we take life to mean.

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Book by Johnston Shaun

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Evolved Self Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0977947017
• ISBN 13: 9780977947010
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile