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Equality, Catastrophe, and the Great Disequalization
The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network are hosting a talk on “Equality, Catastrophe, and the Great Disequalization: Reading Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality in light of Recent Work in Human Paleontology, Anthropology, and Economics” with Professor Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College).
This paper will examine Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality in light of recent work in human paleontology, anthropology, and economics. This work, which collectively chronicles a dramatic departure from the relative equality of Paleolithic hunter/gatherer societies to the “creation of inequality” in the late Neolithic period, provides a startling confirmation of a number of Rousseau’s central insights about the passage of early humans to more complex societies. Rousseau’s sobering vision of inequality’s end, moreover, bears consideration in light of this same work’s reflections on the history of inequality in human societies since the Stone Age.
To join the speaker for dinner in the evening, please email audreyborowski@yahoo.com
Date:
22 April 2017, 14:00
Venue:
Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
Seminar Room
Speaker:
Professor Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College)
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser contact email address:
audrey.borowski@history.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Laura Spence
