description: A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive. Stapledon’s conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first.
title: Last and First Men
titlecomplete: Last and First Men
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Philosophy, Speculative Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, 20th Century
ratings_count: 6016
publisher: Gregg Pr