C. H. Beck Verlag 2008

This journey leads us from the Paleolithic Age to the contemporary digital world of infatuation with the television screen, from the underworlds of human consciousness to the brightly lit landscapes of modern offices and TV worlds: whoever reads Christoph Türcke’s The Philosophy of Dreams will discover that the book encompasses far more than its title suggests. It is concerned with nothing less than the basic structure of our thought and feeling, with the history of human dreaming and waking, and in addition to philosophy, it invokes anthropology and neurology, psychology and media sociology. Türcke makes it clear from the outset that without the capacity to dream mankind would never have become what it is today;...