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How History Gets Things Wrong

By Alex Rosenberg

How History Gets Things Wrong book

How History Gets Things Wrong

By Alex Rosenberg

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To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis. Our love of stories is hard-wired. Neuroscience reveals that human evolution shaped a tool useful for survival into a defective theory of human nature.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2018-10-09
Publication Date:
2018-11-06
Publisher:
The MIT Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0262038579
ISBN13:
9780262038577
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
570 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
32 cm

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