Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History
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1. In the BeginningThe Need for Philosophic HistoryThe Structure of HistoryTrinitarianismsProduction, Coercion, CognitionWhich Way Will the Stone Age Vote Swing?The Suspect Witness2. Community to SocietyThe Cognitive Evolution of MankindMultiple SensitivitiesGeneric Types of StrandSocial and Logical CoherenceThe TerminusThe Overall Plot3. The Coming of the OtherPaths of Cognitive TransformationThe Disembodied Word“Platonism”The Indirect RouteThe First UnificationThe Authority of ConceptsPlato’s Sociological Mistakes4. The TensionA Divine OrderChurch and State and their SeparabilityProtestantism, Generic and Specific5. CodificationReformation to EnlightenmentThe Sovreignty of KnowledgeThe Dethronement of the ConceptConcept-Implementing and Instrumental CulturesThe Enlightened Solution and its ProblemsThe Age of Progress, or Operation Bookstrap6. The Coercive Order and Its ErosionPatterns of PowerConditions of the ExitGeneral Summary7. Production, Value and ValidityThe Economic TransformationProduction and CoercionThe Three Stages of EconomyThe Ideological Transition to the Generalized MarketThe Re-Entry ProblemThe Circularity of Enlightened ReasoningObjectivity or Not?8. The New ScienceThe Concept of Culture and the Limits of ReasonEgalitarianismWhat Next?9. Self-ImagesEconomic Power (Wealth as Lever)The New Coercive SystemThe Two Running-MatesThe Right-Wing AlternativeAcorn or GateThe New Social Contract1945 and Some Recent Clauses in the Contract10. ProspectThe Division of Labour and Back AgainThe Future of ProductionThe Future of CognitionThe Future of CoercionSummary of ArgumentNotesIndex