The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind / Julian Jaynes.

By:

Jaynes, Julian, 1920-1997

Material type:

TextPublication details: Boston ; New York : Mariner Book, 2000.Description: 491 p. : ill. b&w ; 24 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9780618057078

Subject(s):

Consciousness

DDC classification:

128.2

Contents:

Introduction: The problem of consciousness -- Book 1. The mind of man -- 1. The consciousness of consciousness -- 2. Consciousness -- 3. The mind of Iliad -- 4. The bicameral mind -- 5. The double brain -- 6. The origin of civilization -- Book 2. The witness of history -- 1. Gods, graves, and idols -- 2. Literature bicameral theocracies -- 3. The causes of consciousness -- 4. A change of mind in Mesopotamia -- 5. The intellectual consciousness of Greece -- 6. The moral consciousness of the Khabiru -- Book 3. Vestiges of the bicameral mind in the modern world -- 1. The quest for authorization -- 2. Of prophets and possession -- 3. Of poetry and music -- 4. Hypnosis -- 5. Schizophrenia -- 6. The auguries of science.

Summary: At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future. In the words of one reviewer, it is "a humbling text, the kind that reminds most of us who make our livings through thinking, how much thinking there is left to do."

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: The problem of consciousness --
Book 1. The mind of man --
1. The consciousness of consciousness --
2. Consciousness --
3. The mind of Iliad --
4. The bicameral mind --
5. The double brain --
6. The origin of civilization --
Book 2. The witness of history --
1. Gods, graves, and idols --
2. Literature bicameral theocracies --
3. The causes of consciousness --
4. A change of mind in Mesopotamia --
5. The intellectual consciousness of Greece --
6. The moral consciousness of the Khabiru --
Book 3. Vestiges of the bicameral mind in the modern world --
1. The quest for authorization --
2. Of prophets and possession --
3. Of poetry and music --
4. Hypnosis --
5. Schizophrenia --
6. The auguries of science.

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future. In the words of one reviewer, it is "a humbling text, the kind that reminds most of us who make our livings through thinking, how much thinking there is left to do."

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