Humankind : a hopeful history / Rutger Bregman ; translated from the Dutch by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, c2020Edition: First English-language editionDescription: xviii, 461 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316418539 [hardbound]Subject(s): Human beings | Altruism | Conduct of lifeSummary: "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." --Provided by the publisher
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General Interest: Fiction
|
College Library General Interest | 128 B74 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000027961 |
Browsing College Library shelves, Shelving location: General Interest Close shelf browser
|
|
|
|
||
| 128 B74 2020 Humankind : a hopeful history / | 150 T42 2020 A monk's guide to happiness : meditation in the 21st century/ | 333.7 J95 2018 How we're f***ing up our planet / | 546.09 B21 2021 The elements : a visual history of their discovery / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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." --Provided by the publisher
Adult
Translation of: De meeste mensen deugen.
Mindajao, Lynie College of Teacher Education General Interest: Fiction
Text in English
There are no comments on this title.