(Ebook) The Western Illusion of Human Nature 1st Edition by Marshall Sahlins ISBN 9780979405723 0979405726

(Ebook) The Western Illusion of Human Nature 1st Edition by Marshall Sahlins ISBN 9780979405723 0979405726

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ISBN 10: 0979405726
ISBN 13: 9780979405723
Author: Marshall Sahlins

Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing “Western Civ” to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep issue here is the ancient Western specter of a presocial and antisocial human nature: a supposedly innate self-interest that is represented in our native folklore as the basis or nemesis of cultural order. Yet these Western notions of nature and culture ignore the one truly universal character of human sociality: namely, symbolically constructed kinship relations. Kinsmen are members of one another: they live each other’s lives and die each other’s deaths. But where the existence of the other is thus incorporated in the being of the self, neither interest, nor agency or even experience is an individual fact, let alone an egoistic disposition. “Sorry, beg your pardon,” Sahlins concludes, Western society has been built on a perverse and mistaken idea of human nature.
"In this latest in a series of contentious . . . pamphlets, really, distinguished anthropologist Marshall Sahlins (who is also executive publisher of this series) opposes the Western idea of human nature (at least its Hobbesian branch) as avaricious, pugnacious and destructive, unless severely governed. He cites earlier and non-Western societies in which this view is by no means prevalent. Think, he says, of the many societies in which beasts are considered substantially human rather than humans being substantially beasts." — Martin Levin, Globe & Mail
Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of many books.

(Ebook) The Western Illusion of Human Nature 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The Western Illusion of Human Nature
2. Hobbes and Adams as Thucydideans
3. Ancient Greece
4. Alternative Concepts of the Human Condition
5. Mediaval Monarchy
6. Renaissance Republics
7. Founding Fathers
8. The Moral Recuperation of Self-Interest
9. Other Human Worlds
10. Now is the Whimper of Our Self-Contempt
11. Culture is the Human Nature

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