- Bib ID:
- 407667
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Zeldin, Theodore, 1933-
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Description:
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- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1995]
- vii, 488 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 006017160X
- Full contents:
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- 1. How humans have repeatedly lost hope, and how new encounters, and a new pair of spectacles, revive them
- 2. How men and women have slowly learned to have interesting conversations
- 3. How people searching for their roots are only beginning to look far and deep enough
- 4. How some people have acquired an immunity to loneliness
- 5. How new forms of love have been invented
- 6. Why there has been more progress in cooking than in sex
- 7. How the desire that men feel for women, and for other men, has altered through the centuries
- 8. How respect has become more desirable than power
- 9. How those who want neither to give orders nor to receive them can become intermediaries
- 10. How people have freed themselves from fear by finding new fears
- 11. How curiosity has become the key to freedom
- 12. Why it has become increasingly difficult to destroy one's enemies.
- Notes:
-
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 1994 by Sinclair-Stevenson"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Philosophical anthropology
- Copyright:
-
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