The Bridge To Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumped The Selfish Gene

by Walter Goldschmidt

Transforming the debate on nature versus culture to nature and culture, renowned anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt presents a fresh look at how human biology and culture fit together.

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction, Biology

Hardcover

First published July 1, 2005

Reviews

[Georgia Bastos · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a gem! I read some years ago and I still carry some ideas from it to this day.

[Alex Kalinske · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wise contribution to the social sciences that remains important 15 years after its publication. Its only flaw is that Freud cannot be appropriated. Drive is drive: unconscious, undifferentiated, scientifically artifact to cogitation plain, simple and ugly; attractive or, if room, repulsive. What is love is love; attraction attraction. All difference we deliberate between the relationship I or you, he or she, feels towards my, his, your, spouse, father, mother or child, is exactly that—after the fact. What is not expressed is somewhere lost where one needn't in the Freudian psychology explain more. What is unconscious may well be left respectfully there.