Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus

ISBN-13: 9781509534470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 370 str.

Emmanuel Todd

Recenzje

To the study of the United States, the Soviet Union and France, Emmanuel Todd has brought a unique combination of empirical rigour and humanist insight. Now, in Lineages of Modernity, this great thinker has found his greatest subject.'Michael Lind, author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States'Emmanuel Todd provides intellectual nourishment of the first order. His family-based, anthropological-historical account uncovers another part of the hidden wiring of human development and provides a welcome antidote to the relentless economism of so much contemporary analysis. And for those of us unfamiliar with the Todd perspective, he writes with clarity and erudition, marshalling a huge amount of evidence to provide a fresh but undogmatic perspective on the modern world, usually with half an eye on the ancient one.'David Goodhart, member of the Policy Exchange think-tank and author of The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics'Emmanuel Todd is an internationally known scholar whose work on the development and influence of family systems around the world has challenged many preconceptions. This is a bold, iconoclastic, wide-ranging study, marshalling a great deal of material from history, anthropology, demography and other disciplines. It is written from an unusual angle and rightly challenges the primacy of economic forces, emphasizing instead the role of family systems, ideology, education and culture in the shaping of human history. There is much to learn from this work.'Alan Macfarlane, Life Fellow, King's College, Cambridge'Vast and mind-expanding'The Independent

Spis treści

* Preface to the English edition* Introduction. The differentiation of family structures and the inverse model of history* Chapter One. The differentiation of family systems: Eurasia* Chapter Two. The differentiation of family systems: Indian America and Africa* Chapter Three. Homo sapiens* Chapter Four. Judaism and early Christianity: family and literacy* Chapter Five. Germany, Protestantism and universal literacy* Chapter Seven. Educational take-off and economic development* Chapter Eight. Secularization and the crisis of transition* Chapter Nine. The English matrix of globalization* Chapter Ten. Homo americanus* Chapter Eleven. Democracy is always primitive* Chapter Twelve. Democracy undermined by higher education* Chapter Thirteen. A crisis in Black and White* Chapter Fourteen: Donald Trump as will and representation* Chapter Fifteen. The memory of places* Chapter Sixteen. Stem family societies: Germany and Japan Chapter Seventeen. The metamorphosis of Europe* Chapter Eighteen. Communitarian societies: Russia and China* Envoi* Post-script: the future of liberal democracy* Notes* Index*

O autorze

Emmanuel Todd is a sociologist, demographer and historical anthropologist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), Paris. He was one of the first scholars to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union and is the author of many bestselling books, including After the Empire and Who Is Charlie?