The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
The most important book since the Origin of the Species. ~ Ashley Montagu, Princeton Anthropologist
~ Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits
Selected as one of 150 Great Works to Set Your Imagination on Fire (along with Isaiah, Tao Te Ching, Marcus Aurelius, Rumi, Jane Austen, Ghandi, Proust, Tony Morrison, and Passolini) by Utne Reader
This international bestseller -- now in 23 foreign editions, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, and most European languages -- tells a fascinating new story of our past, present, and the possibilities for our future. Weaving together evidence from art, archeology, religion, social science, history, and many other fields of inquiry into new patterns that more accurately fit the best available data, it shows that war and the "war of the sexes" are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible -- and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting drama of what actually happened in our past.
By: Riane Eisler
Pub. Date: 1988
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Pages: 304
ISBN: 0-06250-289-1
Published by HarperOne
Reviews and Accolades
The Chalice and The Blade may be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes. Read The Chalice and The Blade . . . it may make the future possible.
~ L.A. Weekly
To read Eisler is to glimpse new vistas of human possibilities.
~ New Woman
As important, perhaps more important, than the unearthing of Troy or the deciphering of cuneiform.
~ Bruce Wilshire, Professor of philosophy, Rutgers University
