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The Cradle of Humanity - Prehistoric Art and Culture (Paperback)
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The Cradle of Humanity - Prehistoric Art and Culture (Paperback)
Series: The Cradle of Humanity
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A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human
consciousness, community, and potential. The Cradle of Humanity:
Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges
Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative
religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor
idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the
bloodiest war in history-with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and
Hiroshima. Bataille's reflections on the possible origins of
humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible
extinction. For Bataille, prehistory is universal history; it is
the history of a human community prior to its fall into separation,
into nations and races. The art of prehistory offers the earliest
traces of nascent yet fully human consciousness-of consciousness
not yet fully separated from natural flora and fauna, or from the
energetic forces of the universe. A play of identities, the art of
prehistory is the art of a consciousness struggling against itself,
of a human spirit struggling against brute animal physicality.
Prehistory is the cradle of humanity, the birth of tragedy.
Bataille reaches beyond disciplinary specializations to imagine a
moment when thought was universal. Bataille's work provides a model
for interdisciplinary inquiry in our own day, a universal
imagination and thought for our own potential community. The Cradle
of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture speaks to philosophers and
historians of thought, to anthropologists interested in the history
of their discipline and in new methodologies, to theologians and
religious comparatists interested in the origins and nature of
man's encounter with the sacred, and to art historians and
aestheticians grappling with the place of prehistory in the canons
of art.
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