Mutual Aid
A Factor of Evolution
by Peter Kropotkin ; intr. and notes by David Priestland

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Auteur(s)

Peter Kropotkin, David Priestland

Uitgever, jaar

London : Penguin Random House, 2022 (1902)

Omvang

292 p., 19,5 cm.

ISBN

9780241355336

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"Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!" Mutual Aid is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. The essays, initially published in the English periodical The Nineteenth Century between 1890 and 1896, 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.

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Trefwoorden

(on)gelijkheid / (in)equity , sociologie / sociology , zorg / care , cooperation

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 30 - 4: Tentacular Thinking ; Mind Map

Opmerkingen

First published in 1902. Published in Penguin classics, using the 1904 text.