LEADER 03173oam 2200589 c 450 001 9910953901003321 005 20260102090118.0 010 $a9783838276120$b(electronic bk.) 024 3 $a9783838276120 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7024649 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7024649 035 $a(CKB)24097024100041 035 $a(ibidem)9783838276120 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924097024100041 100 $a20260102d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Global Ape: Between Extinction and Transcendence /$fDan Corjescu 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2022 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Corjescu, Dan The Global Ape: Between Extinction and Transcendence Berlin : Ibidem Verlag,c2022 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aWhat is Man? What is his nature? Where is he going? These are but some of the questions this book is trying to find answers to. They are questions that will take us on a fascinating intellectual journey encompassing politics, history, sociology, philosophy, religion, and science. Along the way you will encounter many great thinkers such as Aristotle and Nietzsche (to name but two) as well as be confronted by some of humanity?s most sublime achievements and horrific failures. After reading this book, you will have a better understanding of humankind?s potential for good and evil and our chances for survival and transcendence in the not too distant future. 606 $aFuture 606 $aGeschichte 606 $aHistory 606 $aHuman Behavour 606 $aHumankind 606 $aMenschheit 606 $aMenschliches Verhalten 606 $aZukunft 615 4$aFuture 615 4$aGeschichte 615 4$aHistory 615 4$aHuman Behavour 615 4$aHumankind 615 4$aMenschheit 615 4$aMenschliches Verhalten 615 4$aZukunft 676 $a128 700 $aCorjescu$b Dan$4aut$01714778 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953901003321 996 $aThe global ape$94108890 997 $aUNINA