240 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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The world of things is different now from what it was half a century ago, but Rene Dubos doubts that there have been basic changes in life itself, in those attitudes and activities, needs, and yearning, that are the most important for happiness and suffering, for hope and despair—the differences between humanity and animality. Sophisticated and civilized as we may be, we have retained from our... Read more
Introduction; 1: I / Stability and Adaptability of Humankind; 1: 1 / Old World and New World; 2: 2 / The Saga of the Human Species; 3: 3 / The Races of Man; 4: 4 / Biological Freudianism; 5: 5 / Social Adaptations; 2: II / Choosing to Be Human; 6: 1 / The Bestiality of the Human Species; 7: 2 / The Humanness of the Human Species; 8: 3 / Individualism and Collectivity; 9: 4 / Humanity and the Beast; 3: III / The Past in the Present; 10: 1 / The Cave and the Horizon; 11: 2 / Cities Old and New; 12: 3 / The Clan and the Stranger; 13: 4 / Life in the City; 14: 5 / Crowds and Machines; 15: 6 / Hauts Lieux and Monuments; 4: IV / At Home on Earth; 16: 1 / Yesterday’s Future Shock; 17: 2 / The Camp and the Open Road; 18: 3 / Ulysses and the American Frontier; 19: 4 / Technologic Utopia; 20: 5 / The Incarnations of Humankind; 21: 6 / Revolutions and Resurrection; 5: V / On the Pleasures of Being Human; 22: 1 / The Diversity of Human Life; 23: 2 / Pluralism and World Order; 24: 3 / Adventure and Fantasy; 25: 4 / Joie de Vivre and Happiness
Biography
Rene Dubos
