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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787656203321

Autore

Singer Peter <1946->

Titolo

A Darwinian Left : politics, evolution, and cooperation / / Peter Singer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2000

ISBN

0-300-18999-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Collana

Darwinism today

Disciplina

320.53/1

Soggetti

Human evolution

Right and left (Political science)

Social Darwinism

Socialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-70) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""The need for a new foundation""; ""What is essential to the left?""; ""1 Politics and Darwinism""; ""The right-wing takeover""; ""Facts and values""; ""How the left got Darwin wrong""; ""The dream of perfectibility""; ""Old tunes keep coming back""; ""2 Can the Left Accept a Darwinian View of Human Nature?""; ""Unpopular ideas""; ""What is fixed and what is variable in human nature?""; ""How can reformers leam from Darwin?""; ""3 Competition or Cooperation?""; ""Building a more cooperative society""; ""The prisoner's dilemma""

""Learning from Tit for Tat""""4 From Cooperation to Altruism?""; ""The puzzle of the evolution of altruism""; ""Status for what?""; ""5 A Darwinian Left for Today and Beyond""; ""Notes and References""