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Front Matter Page: i Half Title Page: i Title Page: iii Copyright Page: iv Preface Page: v Contents Page: vii Introduction Page: 1 Book I The Mind of Man Page: 19 1. The Consciousness of Consciousness Page: 21 2. Consciousness Page: 48 3. The Mind of Iliad Page: 67 4. The Bicameral Mind Page: 84 5. The Double Brain Page: 100 6. The Origin of Civilization Page: 126 Book II The Witness of History Page: 147 1. Gods, Graves, and Idols Page: 149 2. Literate Bicameral Theocracies Page: 176 3. The Causes of Consciousness Page: 204 4. A Change of Mind in Mesopotamia Page: 223 5. The Intellectual Consciousness of Greece Page: 255 6. The Moral Consciousness of the Khabiru Page: 293 Book III Vestiges of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World Page: 315 1. The Quest for Authorization Page: 317 2. Of Prophets and Possession Page: 339 3. Of Poetry and Music Page: 361 4. Hypnosis Page: 379 5. Schizophrenia Page: 404 6. The Auguries of Science Page: 433 AFTERWORD Page: 447 Back Matter Page: 471 Index Page: 471 The Drawings Page: 493 About the Author Page: 496 Back Cover Page: Back Cover Spine Page: Spine

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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch   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.   “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times   “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker   “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
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Front Matter Page: i Half Title Page: i Title Page: iii Copyright Page: iv Preface Page: v Contents Page: vii Introduction Page: 1 Book I The Mind of Man Page: 19 1. The Consciousness of Consciousness Page: 21 2. Consciousness Page: 48 3. The Mind of Iliad Page: 67 4. The Bicameral Mind Page: 84 5. The Double Brain Page: 100 6. The Origin of Civilization Page: 126 Book II The Witness of History Page: 147 1. Gods, Graves, and Idols Page: 149 2. Literate Bicameral Theocracies Page: 176 3. The Causes of Consciousness Page: 204 4. A Change of Mind in Mesopotamia Page: 223 5. The Intellectual Consciousness of Greece Page: 255 6. The Moral Consciousness of the Khabiru Page: 293 Book III Vestiges of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World Page: 315 1. The Quest for Authorization Page: 317 2. Of Prophets and Possession Page: 339 3. Of Poetry and Music Page: 361 4. Hypnosis Page: 379 5. Schizophrenia Page: 404 6. The Auguries of Science Page: 433 AFTERWORD Page: 447 Back Matter Page: 471 Index Page: 471 The Drawings Page: 493 About the Author Page: 496 Back Cover Page: Back Cover Spine Page: Spine

Description:
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch   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.   “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times   “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker   “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
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