How History Gets Things Wrong
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? Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Wrong, says Alex Rosenb… Celý popis ↓
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How History Gets Things Wrong
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? Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong.
Narrative history is always, always wrong. Don't. 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 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.Stories historians tell, Rosenberg
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