Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions-love (dogs), contentment (cats), and grief (elephants), among others. In Beasts, he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the âwildâ is a matter of projection.Animals predators kill to survive, but animal aggression is not even remotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Humans are the most violent animals to our own kind in existence. We lack what all other animals have: a check on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. In Beasts, Masson brings to life the richness of the animal world and strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224 pages
- Publisher Bloomsbury USA
- Publication Date March 4th 2014
- First Publication 10/15/13
- Language English
- ISBN 9781608196159
- Edition Not informed
- Category Special Interests
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