Challenges popular conceptions of an innately selfish human race to offer new historical and evolutionary perspectives that argue humans are more hardwired for kindness, cooperation and trust.
Table of Contents
Prologue xi
1 A New Realism
1 (20)
2 The Real Lord of the Flies
21 (20)
PART 1 THE STATE OF NATURE
41 (94)
3 The Rise of Homo puppy
49 (24)
4 Colonel Marshall and the Soldiers Who Wouldn't Shoot
73 (20)
5 The Curse of Civilisation
93 (20)
6 The Mystery of Easter Island
113 (22)
PART 2 AFTER AUSCHWITZ
135 (60)
7 In the Basement of Stanford University
139 (20)
8 Stanley Milgram and the Shock Machine
159 (20)
9 The Death of Catherine Susan Genovese
179 (16)
PART 3 WHY GOOD PEOPLE TURN BAD
195 (56)
10 How Empathy Blinds
201 (22)
11 How Power Corrupts
223 (18)
12 What the Enlightenment Got Wrong
241 (10)
PART 4 A NEW REALISM
251 (68)
13 The Power of Intrinsic Motivation
263 (16)
14 Homo ludens
279 (18)
15 This is What Democracy Looks Like
297 (22)
PART 5 THE OTHER CHEEK
319 (60)
16 Drinking Tea with Terrorists
325 (22)
17 The Best Remedy for Hate, Injustice and Prejudice
347 (18)
18 When the Soldiers Came Out of the Trenches
365 (14)
Epilogue Ten Rules to Live By 379 (20)
Acknowledgements 399 (2)
Notes 401 (52)
Index 453
Verfasser*innenangabe:
Rutger Bregman. Translated from the Dutch by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.
Jahr:
2020
Verlag:
New York, Little, Brown and Company
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PI.MA, FS.E
ISBN:
978-0-316-41853-9
2. ISBN:
0-316-41853-6
Beschreibung:
461 Seiten
Sprache:
Englisch
Originaltitel:
Meeste mensen deugen. <engl>
Fußnote:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-452) and index.- Text englisch. First English-language edition.
Mediengruppe:
Buch