Exploring the changes in scientific thought over the last 100 years, Degler's 'In Search of Human Nature' provides a detailed perspective on the reasons behind the shifting emphasis in social thought from biology, to culture, and again to biology.
Somme toute, la question essentielle, pour la compréhension de l'état du monde contemporain, est celle de l'inégale répartition des richesses entre les sociétés : pourquoi une telle domination de l'Eurasie dans l'histoire? Pourquoi ne sont-ce pas les indigènes d'Amérique, les Af…
Bestselling social critic Jeremy Rifkin shows that the disconnection between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness.--[Source inconnue].
"Encountering the World reorients modern psychology by finding a viable middle ground between the study of nerve cells and cultural analysis. The emerging field of ecological psychology focuses on the "human niche" and our uniquely evolved modes of action and interaction. Reject…
Humain, posthumain: la technique et la vie
"What is a human person, and what is the relation between a person and his or her body? In her third book on the philosophy of mind, Lynne Rudder Baker investigates what she terms the person/body problem and offers a detailed account of the relation between human persons and the…
Marxism and human nature
by Sayers, Sean
fromRoutledge studies in social and political thought
A l'aube de l'an 2000, les hommes veulent-ils toujours ressembler à Dieu où n'aspirent-ils qu'à ressembler aux machines qu'ils ont inventées? L'intelligence artificielle serait-elle la prochaine étape de l'évolution? D'homo sapiens, allons-nous devenir techno-sapiens, c'est-à-di…
