先史時代の哲学：新石器革命、先住民の批判、文明の神話 Prehistoric Philosophy : The Neolithic Revolution, Indigenous Critique, and the Myths of Civilization

Pack, Justin

Bloomsbury Academic（2026/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350531321
• DDC分類 180

Full Description

Prehistoric Philosophy challenges the narrative of progress and other civilizational myths by looking at their origins in the neolithic revolution. Once we reject the simplistic and often racist stereotyping of hunter-gatherers, the agricultural revolution no longer appears as the first step of human progress, but rather as a messy, brutal shift that unleashed a host of evils into the world: inequality, hierarchy, disease, empire, warfare, patriarchy, slavery, and environmental destruction.
Building on the success of Graeber and Wengrow's ground-breaking The Dawn of Everything, Justin Pack reads the neolithic revolution together with indigenous critiques, using each to strengthen our understanding of the other. In doing so, he helps us to understand the concerns of many indigenous communities, and forces us to recognize our role in the death of the cosmos. Building on this, the book illuminates the rise of the world's major religious and philosophical traditions in the axial age as different attempts to make sense of, justify, or escape the evils of inequality, disease, empire, and the loss of cosmic civility. By advancing the notion of a 'prehistoric philosophy,' this volume simultaneously interrogates the colonialism inherent in the Western philosophy canon.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Hunter-Gatherers in the Living Cosmos
1. Before the Neolithic Revolution
2. The Living Cosmos
3. Recognition and Gifting

Part II: The Neolithic Revolution and Pandora's Box
4. The Rise of Agriculture
5. Patriarchy and the Breaking of the Cosmic Alliance

Part III: The Axial Age
6. The Axial Age and Money
7. The Axial Age and Money
8. Asian Traditions
9. Greek Philosophy

Conclusions: The Death of the Cosmos and the Project of Modernity