Human Sciences


Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Man's Search for Meaning
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Civilization and Its Discontents
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
How the Mind Works
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Peter Sloterdijk
In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradition-compatible connections between the bridgeheads in t ...more
Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern

Erich Fromm
It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called "human nature" is but one of its many manifestations - and often a pathological one - and the function of such mistaken definition usually has been to defend a particular type of society as being the necessary one. ...more
Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

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