Man is a creator and destroyer. Evolution of behavior and social organization
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The book unfolds a wide panorama of the formation and development of human culture, the evolution of creativity.
The author describes the transition from the gun activities of chimpanzees, which is highly differentiated, to the birth of a stone industry, analyzes the latest numerous data on the lifestyle of archaic societies of hunting hunters. Gradually, the material basis of abstract thinking, and new data on the possible sources of the language, about the dialectical unity of language and speech, and about the specifics of the spheres of the application of these two phenomena of human behavior. The social organization of modern man is being considered: from archaic egalitarian societies to hierarchical tribal (with the transition to sedimentation), then to stratification and, finally, to industrial. The study ends with a description of the post -industrial society with all its difficult ailments, leading, along with the greatest achievements in technology, to the destruction of civilization. There are still no unambiguous answer to many issues discussed in the book, and the author considers them in all the variety of primary data, hypotheses and opinions. He discusses the most difficult, often acute discussion issues, which will interest specialists. The book is intended for the prepared reader, but it will also be useful to students and all those people who ask themselves the questions "who are we?", "Where are we?" And "what awaits us in the future?"
The author describes the transition from the gun activities of chimpanzees, which is highly differentiated, to the birth of a stone industry, analyzes the latest numerous data on the lifestyle of archaic societies of hunting hunters. Gradually, the material basis of abstract thinking, and new data on the possible sources of the language, about the dialectical unity of language and speech, and about the specifics of the spheres of the application of these two phenomena of human behavior. The social organization of modern man is being considered: from archaic egalitarian societies to hierarchical tribal (with the transition to sedimentation), then to stratification and, finally, to industrial. The study ends with a description of the post -industrial society with all its difficult ailments, leading, along with the greatest achievements in technology, to the destruction of civilization. There are still no unambiguous answer to many issues discussed in the book, and the author considers them in all the variety of primary data, hypotheses and opinions. He discusses the most difficult, often acute discussion issues, which will interest specialists. The book is intended for the prepared reader, but it will also be useful to students and all those people who ask themselves the questions "who are we?", "Where are we?" And "what awaits us in the future?"
Author:
Author:Panov Evgeny Nikolaevich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Science & Math
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Reasonable behavior and language
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-950061-8-4
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