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Loading... Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolutionby Peter Kropotkin
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Kropotkin's observation that species succeed just as much (or more) by cooperating than by competing was innovative a century ago, and helped buck the trend of a vicious, individualistic interpretation of Darwinism. But his book is now very dated and superseded by more recent findings, his style is tiring (consisting of a very long list of examples of mutual aid), and his argumentation is biased. ( )Written by the Russian 'Anarchist Prince', Mutual Aid is Kropotkin's work on cooperation as opposed to conflict within the natural and human world. The chapters are on mutual aid among animals; among 'savages' and 'barbarians' as Kropotkin calls them; in the medieval city; and amongst ourselves. The work Kropotkin put into this book is phenomonal, the points he makes are elaborated on and demonstrated adequately, and I think it deserves a wider audience. To anyone who thinks conflict is the foundation of nature, I beg of you, read this book. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0875580246, Paperback)Sociability and need of mutual aid and support are such inherent parts of human nature that at no time of history can we discover men living in small isolated families, fighting each other for the means of subsistence. On the contrary, modern research, as we saw it in the two preceding chapters, proves that since the very beginning of their prehistoric life men used to agglomerate into gentes, clans, or tribes, maintained by an idea of common descent and by worship of common ancestors.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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