I’m thinking of books with a grand and eccentric theory, full of rich detail drawn from various disciplines and interesting hypotheses that are perhaps out of fashion. Books such as James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, Robert Graves’ The White Goddess, Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death, Anthony Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Restartus, Erich Neumann’s The Origin and History of Consciousness, Julian Jayne’s The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, etc.
I absolutely love books like this so if anyone knows of others, I’d love to hear about it.
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Birth of the Modern or Modern Times by Paul Johnson