The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comp

by Marshall Sahlins

Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep issue here is the ancient Western specter of a presocial and antisocial human nature: a supposedly innate self-interest that is represented in our native...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979405726
• ISBN13: 9780979405723
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 7.0"