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Humankind : A hopeful history / Rutger Bregman ; translated from the Dutch by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.

By: Bregman, Rutger 1988- [author.].
Contributor(s): Manton, Elizabeth [translator.] | Moore, Erica [translator.].
Publisher: New Delhi : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021Description: xviii, 465 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781526640734 (pbk.); 9780316418539 (hbk.).Subject(s): Altruism | Human beings | Philosophical anthropology | Human behavior | Humanity | KindnessDDC classification: 128 Online resources: Publisher Description
Contents:
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 Acknowledgements Notes 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 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-455) and index.

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
Acknowledgements
Notes
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.

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