Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions
Editors: Frey, Ulrich, Störmer, Charlotte, Willführ, Kai P. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Reveals the seven greatest errors in the way we view our own species
- Revisits the Naked Ape, employing the latest ideas from evolutionary biology, philosophy, and neurobiology
- Carries implications for a new image of humanity
- Shines a multidisciplinary spotlight on critical social, political and moral issues
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- About this book
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Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have been central to defining our humanness. What emerges is a new human, the homo novus, a human being without illusions.
Leading authors from many different fields explore these issues by addressing these illusions and providing evidence for the need to switch to this new idea of man, in spite of understandable reluctance to let go of our most beloved illusions.
- About the authors
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Ulrich Frey (philosophy), Charlotte Störmer and Kai Willführ (biology) work in an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Giessen, applying evolutionary theory to a broad range of fields. The following authors contributed to the chapters of this book: Kurt Bayertz, Athanasios Chasiotis, Robin Dunbar, Harald A. Euler, Detlef Fetchenhauer, Julia Fischer, Bernulf Kanitscheider, Chris Knight, Virpi Lummaa, Amy R. Parish, Julia Pradel, Gerhard Roth, Wulf Schiefenhövel, Rebecca Sear, Volker Sommer and Gerhard Vollmer.
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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The Position of Man in the Cosmos
Pages 7-18
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Living Differences
Pages 19-33
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Nothing to Talk About
Pages 35-48
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The True Egoist Is Cooperative
Pages 51-63
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions
- Editors
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- Ulrich Frey
- Charlotte Störmer
- Kai P. Willführ
- Series Title
- The Frontiers Collection
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-12142-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-12142-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-12141-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-43952-0
- Series ISSN
- 1612-3018
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 291
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