It is time for a new view of human nature. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think - and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. These feel good stories remind us of the amazing world in which we live. In its pages you’ll meet the mentor who changed a child’s life with a single conversation the 6-yr-old who launched a global kindness movement and more.
In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. HumanKind is a book celebrating those moments where a small act of kindness transforms a life. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. 'It'd be no surprise if it proved to be the Sapiens of 2020' GUARDIAN If one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman's thinking, it is that every progressive idea - whether it was the abolition of slavery, the advent of democracy, women's suffrage, or the ratification of marriage equality - was once considered radical and. 'This book must be read by as many people as possible - only when people change their view of human nature will they begin to believe in the possibility of building a better world' GRACE BLAKELEY From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our success. 'If you only read one book this year, make it this one' CATHY RENTZENBRINK
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