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Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels : how human values evolve
- Title
- Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels : how human values evolve / Ian Morris ; [with responses by] Richard Seaford, Jonathan D. Spence, Christine M. Korsgaard, Margaret Atwood ; edited and introduced by Stephen Macedo.
- Author
- Morris, Ian, 1960-
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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- Description
- xxii, 369 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This is a successor work to Why the West Rules for Now, in which Morris once again advances an ambitious account of how certain 'brute material forces' limit and help determine the 'culture, values, and beliefs,' including the moral codes, that humans have adopted over the last 20,000 years. The present volume originated as Ian Morris's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered at Princeton University in November of 2012"--Introduction.
- Series Statement
- The University Center for Human Values series
- Subjects
- Social evolution > History
- Civilization > Forecasting
- Social change > History
- Hunting and gathering societies > History
- Civilization > History
- Fossil fuels > Social aspects > History
- Agriculture > Social aspects > History
- HISTORY / World
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Power resources > Social aspects > History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Social values > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-339) and index.
- Contents
- Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs -- Foragers -- Farmers -- Fossil Fuels -- The Evolution of Values : Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come -- On the Ideology of Imagining That "Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs" / Richard Seaford -- But What Was It Really Like? : The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values / Jonathan D. Spence -- Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self / Christine M. Korsgaard -- When the Lights Go Out : Human Values after the Collapse of Civilization / Margaret Atwood -- My Correct Views on Everything / Ian Morris.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-1173
- ISBN
- 9780691160399
- 0691160392
- LCCN
- 2014044896
- OCLC
- 2014044896
- Author
- Morris, Ian, 1960-
- Title
- Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels : how human values evolve / Ian Morris ; [with responses by] Richard Seaford, Jonathan D. Spence, Christine M. Korsgaard, Margaret Atwood ; edited and introduced by Stephen Macedo.
- Publisher
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The University Center for Human Values series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-339) and index.
- Added Author
- Seaford, Richard.Spence, Jonathan D.Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion).Atwood, Margaret, 1939-Macedo, Stephen, 1957-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-1173