Mary E Clark

In Search of Human Nature

Who Do We Think We Are?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark takes the most recent data from a dozen or more fields, and works it together with clarifying anecdotes and thought-provoking images to challenge conventional Western beliefs with hopeful new insights. Balancing the theories of cutting-edge neuroscience with the insights of primitive mythologies, Mary Clark provides down-to-earth suggestions for peacefully resolving global problems. Human Nature builds up a coherent, and above all positive, picture of who we really are.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 171mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 948g
• ISBN-13: 9780415286602
• ISBN-10: 0415286603
• Artikelnr.: 21613784

Autorenporträt

Mary E. Clark was formerly Drucie French Cumbie Chair in Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. Her previous books include Contemporary Biology and Ariadne's thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking. Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. Her previous books include Contemporary Biology and Ariadne's Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Questioning the Scientized Image 2. Why we Primates are not
'Game Theorists' 3. The Selecting of Homo Sapiens 4. Brain Matters 5. A
Thirst for Meaning 6. How Experience Shapes the Brain 7. 'Who Am I?' -
Where Biology and Culture Meet 8. History, the Story of Meanings through
Time 9. Humankind Crosses the Rubicon, 1900-2000 10. Conflict: Control or
Reconciliation 11. The Search for Autonomy Within Community