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A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation
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A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation Hardback - 2000

by Peter Singer

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A renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature and shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory can help the left attain its social and political goals.

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In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.

Singer explains why the left originally rejected Darwinian thought and why these reasons are no longer viable. He discusses how twentieth-century thinking has transformed our understanding of Darwinian evolution, showing that it is compatible with cooperation as well as competition, and that the left can draw on this modern understanding to foster cooperation for socially desirable ends. A Darwinian left, says Singer, would still be on the side of the weak, poor, and oppressed, but it would have a better understanding of what social and economic changes would really work to benefit them. It would also work toward a higher moral status for nonhuman animals and a less anthropocentric view of our dominance over nature.

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In 1874 Karl Marx read Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin, one of the founders of anarchism as an international revolutionary movement and Marx's main rival for control of the First International.

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  • Title A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation
  • Author Peter Singer
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition. F
  • Pages 70
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Publication date April 2000
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300083231 / 0300083238
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.24 x 4.67 x 0.44 in (18.39 x 11.86 x 1.12 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Socialism, Human evolution
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99057179
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.531

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 100

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Peter Singer is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous books, including Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants and Individuals, Humans and Persons: Questions of Life and Death, both coauthored with Helga Kuhse.

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