The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the
evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier
work which garnered such praise as "solid lessons in the history of
ideas" (KIRKUS Reviews), "filled with piquant details" (Common
Boundary), and "an informative synthesis and a remarkably friendly,
good-natured jeremiad" (The Village Voice). Here, in a remarkable
discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode
of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness,
or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of
sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships. In
an integrated tour de force, Wandering God explores the meaning of
Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of
cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and
agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as
well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in the
philosophical writings of the twentieth century.
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ISBN
9780791493243
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Suny Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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