Father, in a Far Distant Time I Find You: Utopian novel exploring the impact of evolutionary theory on human nature - Softcover

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The classic tradition of the British utopian novel is here applied to evolutionary theory. We're four thousand years in the future. For his end-of-school report Gregory Dumont reviews history since the collapse of the Modern World (our time), in particular focusing on the sequence of World Figures that comes to dominate history for most of that time. His father, a history teacher, was right up until his recent death fascinated by these figures. Gregory had always refused to share his father's passion, but in the course of writing his report Gregory comes to appreciate that passion, and his father.Evolutionary theory developed over the past two centuries in a series of steps, from Lyell's concern with geology up to modern interest in the evolution of culture. "Father..." projects those steps onto a succession of civilizations, each dominated by its own World Figure, making explicit the implications for human nature of each step in that development. "Father..." raises the question, how far does our evolutionary origin story shape what we take life to mean.

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