Father, in a Far Distant Time I Find You

Shaun Johnston

ISBN 10: 0977947017 / ISBN 13: 9780977947010

Published by Evolved Self Publishing June 2007, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Father, in a Far Distant Time I Find You
• Publisher: Evolved Self Publishing June 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977947017
• ISBN 13: 9780977947010
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Fiction

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Synopsis

The classic tradition of the British utopian novel is here applied to evolutionary theory. We're four thousand years in the future. For his end-of-school report Gregory Dumont reviews history since the collapse of the Modern World (our time), in particular focusing on the sequence of World Figures that comes to dominate history for most of that time. His father, a history teacher, was right up until his recent death fascinated by these figures. Gregory had always refused to share his father's passion, but in the course of writing his report Gregory comes to appreciate that passion, and his father.Evolutionary theory developed over the past two centuries in a series of steps, from Lyell's concern with geology up to modern interest in the evolution of culture. "Father..." projects those steps onto a succession of civilizations, each dominated by its own World Figure, making explicit the implications for human nature of each step in that development. "Father..." raises the question, how far does our evolutionary origin story shape what we take life to mean.