Humankind : a hopeful history
Bregman, Rutger, 1988-2020
Book
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.
Main title:
Humankind : a hopeful history / Rutger Bregman ; translated from the Dutch by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.©2020
Collation:
xxii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
First published in 2019 in the Netherlands as De Meeste Mensen Deugen by De Corresponent.Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the Dutch.
ISBN:
9781408898956 (paperback)9781408898949 (paperback)9781408898932 (hardback)1408898942 (paperback)1408898950 (paperback)
Dewey class:
128
Language:
EnglishDutch
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BRN:
655370
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| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Young Adult Non Fiction | YA 128 BREG | Available |