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Acknowledgments; Figures and Pictures; I: Questions and Answers -- Background, Motivations and Aims; Ii: Suggested Questions; 1: What Explains That Some Kinds of Knowledge Are Widely Accepted Whereas Other Kinds of Knowledge Are Rejected?; 2: Why Do Some Societal Processes and Phenomena Develop in a Circular or Repetitive Way Whereas Other Processes Evolve Along a Cumulative Trajectory?; 3: Why Do Social Norms Change, Despite the Fact that their Mission is to be Sustained? What Role Do Non-Conformist Individuals and Minority Groups Play in Cultural, Cognitive and Normative Change?; 4: Does a Gradual Extension of Our Lifespan (and the Rise of Welfare) Imply a Growing or Declining Ability to Postpone the Satisfaction of Our Needs and Desires?; 5: What Explains the Widespread Diffusion of Inequality and the Gradual Emergence of Egalitarianism Over the Centuries?; 6. Why Do People Appropriate Aesthetic Experience (Both as Producers and Consumers of Cultural Manifestations), and What Are the Individual and Societal Functions of Such Experiences?; What Lies Ahead?; Appendixes; References; Index. |
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Ask bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and self-reflecting agents. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Historiography.
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Historiographie.
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historiography.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Historiography
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jarrick, Arne. Big research questions about the human condition. London : Anthem Press, 2021 1785275674 (OCoLC)1190851279 |
| ISBN |
1785275682 |
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9781785275692 (ePub ebook) |
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1785275690 |
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9781785275685 (electronic bk.) |
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9781785275678 (hbk.) |
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1785275674 |
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AU@ 000068466681 |
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AU@ 000070440405 |
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AU@ 000070668626 |
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AU@ 000073960360 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910084324305765 |
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UKMGB 019985191 |
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UKMGB 020558882 |
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