Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human PotentialState University of New York Press, 3 de gen. 2008 - 240 pàgines Does history have a direction? Are there principles that unify our experience and show connections among diverse places, times, and cultures? Seeking to answer these questions, Deep History offers a fresh theory of social evolution while thinking grandly about the human condition. With his theory based in the Marxian and historical materialist tradition, David Laibman starts from scratch and utilizes some of the best insights in economics and economic history, sociology, political science, anthropology, history, and philosophy to construct a new framework for understanding the most general aspects of social evolution. He then applies this framework to modern era capitalist societies and, projecting it on a postcapitalist or socialist future, captures an understanding of the core momentum that has characterized our lived experience, a momentum considerate of diversity, contingency, and the role of human consciousness over time. |
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Pàgina viii - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
Pàgina 119 - The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has. created more massive and more colossal productive forces, than have all preceding generations together.
Pàgina 145 - The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Pàgina 124 - ... the fact or character attributed to nature or natural processes of being directed toward an end or shaped by a purpose 3: the use of design or purpose as an explanation of natural phenomena
Pàgina 106 - One of these periods of cultural upheaval occurred in the early decades of the nineteenth century; a second occurred in the decades just before and after the turn of the twentieth century.
Pàgina 20 - The researchers came up with 39 behavior patterns that fit their definition of cultural variation, meaning they were customary in some communities and absent in others, for reasons that could only be explained by learning or imitation" (New York Times, June 17, 1999).
Pàgina 20 - Waal (1999:635) remarked that "the record is so impressive that it will be hard to keep these apes out of the cultural domain without once again moving the goalposts.
Pàgina 44 - Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997...
Pàgina 56 - Perhaps all that can be said is that history exhibits a bias imparted by Competitive Primacy; a bias weaker than a tendency but considerably stronger than nothing at all
Pàgina 14 - the trend — in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and other departments across the nation — to dismiss the possibility that there are any biologically based commonalities that cut across cultural differences" a "new creationism