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Human development, language and the future of mankind : the madness of culture / Louis S. Berger.

Title: Human development, language and the future of mankind : the madness of culture / Louis S. Berger.
Author: Berger, Louis S.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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viii, 177 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind offers a provocative and original analysis of the global threats to our survival. It identifies long-standing missteps in individual and cultural development that have led humanity into a widespread 'pathology of normality'. This madness is almost impossible to recognize because it has become the norm and its symptoms may even be admired, crippling humankind's efforts to counter the global dangers that we ourselves have created. Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this examination aims to alter the way in which our current global challenges are perceived, opening up new, previously inaccessible insights, and offering original and promising remedial approaches.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

1.Understanding our Global Dangers -- 2.What is Language, and Why Does it Matter? -- 3.Infancy and First Language Acquisition -- 4.Literacy and Primary Orality -- 5.Ontogenesis and Pathology -- 6.Phylogenesis and Madness -- 7.Visions of Sanity -- 8.Toward Restorative Change.

ISBN

9781137415264
1137415266

LCCN

^^2014018845

OCLC

881655917

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Harvard Library