THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily
Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely,
highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read
Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to
feel better about the human race' Tim Harford 'The book we need right
now' Daily Telegraph 'Made me see humanity from a fresh perspective'
Yuval Noah Harari It's a belief that unites the left and right,
psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the
headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From
Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have
sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by
nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new
argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume
that people are good. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete,
trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back
to the beginning of Homo sapiens. By thinking the worst of others, we
bring out the worst in our politics and economics too. In this major
book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of
the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them,
providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human
history. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian
fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock
machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing
in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think – and act
as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. It is time
for a new view of human nature.
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408898963
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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