Issues in Evolution, History and Progress: Working Papers, Number 4 (Working Papers Series) - Hardcover

Scharlemann, Robert P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819176389 ISBN 13: 9780819176387

Publisher: University Press of America, 1990

Synopsis

Robin Fox's provocative essay, 'Consciousness out of Context,' is presented here, along with the replies of three scholarly respondents, Richard Handler, George Klosko, and Julian N. Hartt. Fox's thesis that the human species is biologically constituted in such a way as to make progress beyond a certain stage of organization unrealizable, and that what we regard as the progress of civilization is instead only a kind of oscillation between the two extremes of an impossible situation, is one that overturns many commonplaces of modern thought. Professor Fox has presented the thesis with clarity and vigor, and his respondents have been equally clear in their comments upon it. Co-published with the Committee on the Comparative Study of Individual and Society.

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Review

The session at the University of Virginia must have been great fun...there are many snippets of insight to delight an audience.--American Anthropologist

About the Author

Robert P. Scharlemann is Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His most recent books includes "The Critique of Modernity" and" Inscriptions and Reflections,"
Robert P. Scharlemann is Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His most recent books includes "The Critique of Modernity" and" Inscriptions and Reflections,"

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819176389
• ISBN 13: 9780819176387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 96