6. The Violent Imagination

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction: Bearing the Bad News 1
4. 1. The Cultural Animal 11
5. 2. Inhuman Nature and Unnatural Rights 35
6. 3. Darwin and the Donation of Durkheim I: Liberalism and the Legacy of Locke 53
7. 4. Darwin and the Donation of Durkheim II: Bradley and the Benison of Bergson 77
8. 5. The Disunity of Anthropology and the Unity of Mankind: Introducing the Concept of the Ethosystem 106
9. 6. The Violent Imagination 126
10. 7. The Inherent Rules of Violence 150
11. 8. The Passionate Mind: Brain, Dreams, Memory, Evolution, and Social Categories 171
12. 9. Kinship Categories as Natural Categories 190
13. 10. Consciousness Out of Context: Evolution, History, Progress, and the Post-Post-Industrial Society 205
14. Notes and References 243
15. Index 255