Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Intro -- Lineages of Modernity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the english edition -- Introduction: the differentiation of family structures and the inverse model of history -- 1 The Differentiation of Family Systems: Eurasia -- 2 The Differentiation of Family Systems: Indian America and Africa -- 3 Homo Sapiens -- 4 Judaism and Early Christianity: Family and Literacy -- 5 Germany, Protestantism and Universal Literacy -- 6 The Great European Mental Transformation -- 7 Educational Take--off and Economic Development -- 8 Secularization and the Crisis of Transition -- 9 The English Matrix of Globalization -- 10 Homo Americanus -- 11 Democracy Is Always Primitive -- 12 Democracy Undermined by Higher Education -- 13 A Crisis in Black and White -- 14 Donald Trump as Will and Representation -- 15 The Memory of Places -- 16 Stem-Family Societies: Germany and Japan -- 17 The Metamorphosis of Europe -- 18 Communitarian Societies: Russia and China -- Envoi -- Postscript: The Future of Liberal Democracy -- Notes -- Index.
