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Alex Rosenberg

How History Gets Things Wrong

The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories

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Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.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's 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 Darwinia… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-262-34842-3
  • EAN: 9780262348423
  • Produktnummer: 34355100
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 14'189 KB
  • Abbildungen: 10 COLOR ILLUS., 37 B&W ILLUS.

Über den Autor


Alex Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions and other books.

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