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The Mutual Aid a Factor in Evolution - Softcover

Kropotkin, Pyotr; Kenny, Peter

 
9789390896660: The Mutual Aid a Factor in Evolution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9390896665 ISBN 13: 9789390896660
Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LLP, 2021

Synopsis

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. The essays explore the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocity (or ""mutual aid"") in the animal kingdom and human societies both past and present. It is an argument against theories of social Darwinism that emphasize competition and survival of the fittest, and against the romantic depictions by writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who thought that cooperation was motivated by universal love. Instead Kropotkin argues that mutual aid has pragmatic advantages for the survival of human and animal communities and, along with the conscience, has been promoted through natural selection. Mutual Aid is considered a fundamental text in anarchist communism.

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Publisher
Sanage Publishing House LLP
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9390896665
ISBN 13 
9789390896660
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
242