The paradoxical primate

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The paradoxical primate

Colin Talbot

(Societas : essays in political and cultural criticism, v. 14)

Imprint Academic, c2005

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Series number from p. [104]

Bibliography: p. [97]-103

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内容説明

Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet have an inherited set of behavioural instincts. When the founder of sociobiology, E.O. Wilson, made a plea for greater integration of the physical and human sciences in his book Consilience, there was an underlying assumption that the traffic would be mainly one way -- from physical to human science. This book reverses this assumption and draws on a new branch of human sciences, paradoxical systems theory, to reconceptualise some of the most innovative developments from physical sciences -- the related fields of evolutionary psychology, ethology, and behavioural genetics. The new approach is also applied to politics, economic and public policy approaches.

目次

Preface Introduction: Paradox & Evolution Part I: EXPLORATIONS ==================== Chapter One: Beyond Rational Management 1. Trust Me, I'm a Guru 2. Paradigm Shifts and the Tyranny of Boston Boxes 3. The Emergence of Paradox 4. Organisational Paradoxes: Real, Metaphorical and Imagined Chapter Two: A Treatise Concerning Civil Government 1. Human Nature and Government 2. Administrative Argument 3. Paradoxical Proverbs 4. Research I: Decentralising the Civil Service? 5. Research II: Strategy 6. Paradoxes, Pendulums and Tides Chapter Three: The Organisation of Hypocrisy 1. The Evolution of Morality 2. White Lies and Social Hypocrisy 3. Paradoxes of Everyday Life 4. Tolerating Ambiguity: Religion in Japan 5. Organisational Hypocrisy Part II: EVOLUTIONS =================== Chapter Four: The Whisperings Within 1. Hypothesising Paradoxical Instincts 2. Aggression and Peacemaking 3. Conformity and Autonomy 4. Altruism and Selfishness 5. Cooperation and Competition 6. Conclusion Chapter Five: The Descent of Man 1. Instincts, Emotions and Intellects 2. Paradoxical Instincts and Individual Adaptability 3. Yobs, Hippies and Paradoxical Primates 4. Paradoxical Instincts and Social Formations: Fission-Fusion Societies Chapter Six: Climbing Mount Paradoxical 1. Evolving Paradox 2. Modelling Paradoxical Instincts Redux 3. Dynamics of Paradoxical Systems 4. Paradoxical Instincts, Institutions and Intelligences 5. Towards Consilience: The Role of a Paradox Theory?

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