Humankind : A hopeful history
著者
書誌事項
Humankind : A hopeful history
Little, Brown and Company, 2020, ©2020
First English-language edition
- タイトル別名
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Meeste mensen deugen
- 統一タイトル
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Meeste mensen deugen
注記
Content Type: text (rdacontent), still image (rdacontent), cartographic image (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
First published in 2019 in the Netherlands as De Meeste Mensen Deugen by De Correspondent
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-452) and index
Summary: 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
Translated from the Dutch
収録内容
- Prologue
- 1. A new realism
- 2. The real Lord of the Flies
- Part 1. The State of Nature
- 3. The rise of Homo puppy
- 4. Colonel Marshall and the soldiers who wouldn't shoot
- 5. The curse of civilisation
- 6. The mystery of Easter Island
- Part 2. After Auschwitz
- 7. In the basement of Stanford University
- 8. Stanley Milgram and the shock machine
- 9. The death of Catherine Susan Genovese
- Part 3. Why Good People Turn Bad
- 10. How empathy blinds
- 11. How power corrupts
- 12. What the Enlightenment got wrong
- Part 4. A New Realism
- 13. The power of intrinsic motivation
- 14. Homo ludens
- 15. This is what democracy looks like
- Part 5. The Other Cheek
- 16. Drinking tea with terrorists
- 17. The best remedy for hate, injustice and prejudice
- 18. When the soldiers came out of the trenches
- Epilogue. Ten Rules to Live By
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
