
The Invention of Good and Evil
A World History of Morality
Hanno Sauer(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 12. September 2024
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-19-779025-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this ambitious volume Hanno Sauer integrates the findings of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into a sweeping synthetic narrative of human evolution -- a history with morality at its core. He explains how, starting 5 million years ago, adaptive pressures created the need for human cooperation and over time were the source of our notions of right and wrong. Sauer then moves forward in time, showing how this evolutionary inheritance shaped human society, and ultimately how modern societies, and our current social tensions, are the result of this deep history--while at the same time arguing that this history shows that humans share fundamental moral values across time and cultures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
714 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-779025-0 (9780197790250)
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Person
Hanno Sauer is a philosopher and writer who teaches ethics at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He has written numerous academic articles and monographs and has given talks in various countries in Europe and North America. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Early Career Researchers (2020), European Research Commission Starting Grant (2019). The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality was shortlisted for the German Non-Fiction Award (2023), the Tractatus Prize for the best philosophical essay 2023, and became a DER SPIEGEL Bestseller. It is currently being translated into 16 languages and will appear in more than 20 countries.