An intimate history of humanity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperCollins Publishers,
[1994]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of 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
- 13. How the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed, but not the art of knowing where to escape to.