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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795739903321

Autore

Corjescu Dan

Titolo

The global ape : between extinction and transcendence / / Dan Corjescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783838276120

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages)

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Human beings

Social psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Introduction: The Global Ape Between Extinction and Transcendence -- Chapter One: The Fiery People -- 1. War-Nests -- 2. Great Chefs -- 3. Highly Emotional People -- 4. Mind Readers -- 5. Socialites -- 6. Cuddly Punishers -- 7. The Cultural Animal -- 8. Masters of Complexity -- Chapter Two: Human Behavior, War, and The State -- Chapter Three: Global Elements of Genocide: The Scholars Speak -- Chapter Four: Enlightenment, Modernity, and Genocide Reconsidered -- Chapter Five: War's Dialectic? -- Chapter Six: All of Caesar's Men -- Chapter Seven: The Evolution of Leadership and Social Dominance -- Chapter Eight: The Babbling Ape -- Chapter Nine: The Religious Ape: Homo Religiosus -- Chapter Ten: The Shifting Sands of Science and Technology -- Chapter Eleven: Moral and Unfree or On the Moral Graciousness of Fatalism -- Chapter Twelve: The Global Ape: Between Transcendence and Extinction -- Bibliography.