Thursday, December 10, 2020

A review of ‘Lineages of Modernity’ by Emmanuel Todd

 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/11/emmanuel-todd-lineages-of-modernity.html?fbclid=IwAR0QgOz70IWP4TMnJ6I_4KbFEfw46Qm-8Ku7CRbvGIPUnRK4mk3ybX1FKxQ

 To be clear, half of this book is unsupported, or sometimes just trivial.  There were several times I was tempted to just stop reading, but then it became interesting again.  Todd covers a great deal of ground (the subtitle is A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus), not all of it convincingly.  But when he makes you think, you really feel he might be on to something.”

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