| Description |
vii, 488 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History.
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Interpersonal relations -- History.
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Love -- History.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Social history.
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| LC no. |
94037425 |
| ISBN |
006017160X |
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