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Nov 4, 2021 · Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe.
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Sep 16, 2020 · Now, he’s put it all in a new book called “The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous.” In it, he lays out how people from these societies differ psychologically from most other people throughout human history.
Sep 12, 2020 · In his groundbreaking new book, “The WEIRDest People in the World,” the anthropologist Joseph Henrich argues that people from Western countries have a unique psychology.
Nov 16, 2021 · Around the World in 80 Books is the result of those literary travels, and invites even more readers to plot a course through the wonders of world literature. There are probably few American literary luminaries as suited to showcasing the scale and scope of the world’s books as David Damrosch, a Harvard professor of comparative literature and ...
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology.
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Oct 5, 2020 · The best books on Global Cultural Understanding: the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize recommended by Patrick Wright
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Nov 9, 2021 · A modern-day Phileas Fogg circumnavigates the globe in books. Damrosch, chair of the department of comparative literature at Harvard and founder of its Institute for World Literature, mimics Jules Verne’s ambitious itinerary of world travel from east to west as he delves into 16 geographical groups of five books “that have responded to ...
