Julian Jaynes: 2 books

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...

In poche, densissime, appassionate pagine, la tesi molto poco ortodossa su cui si fonda l'intera opera di Jaynes: la coscienza non è data da sempre, e per sempre, ma – come tutto – ha una storia.