Rationalism in the Neolithic Interlude

Stationary foragers, communal buildings, proto-administration

Composition IX, by Wassily Kandinsky Date: 1936

Recap and introduction

Our story of society has been told in terms of differentiation — between persons as biological individuals, between the group and its members, between the dominant person and the obedient group. We turn now to a fourth differentiation emerging on the basis of administrative organisati…