Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. In Humankind, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good.

Bregman takes some of the world’s most famous studies and...

Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. In Humankind, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good.

Bregman takes some of the world’s most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think – and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. It is time for a new view of human nature.

Details

Measures 19,8 x 12,9 cm
Counts 496 pages
Features softcover
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing