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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2020Copyright date: �2020Edition: First English-language editionDescription: xviii, 461 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781526640734
Uniform titles:
  • Meeste mensen deugen. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 128 23 BRH
LOC classification:
  • HM1146 .B7413 2020
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 -- Acknowledgments -- 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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First published in 2019 in the Netherlands as De Meeste Mensen Deugen by De Correspondent.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-452) 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 -- Acknowledgments -- 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.

Translated from the Dutch.

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