The Social Contract

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For the past decade Robert Ardrey has been exploding a series of Philosophical land-mines. AFRICAN GENESIS (1961) introduced his new evolutionary approach to an understanding of men. T^hen carne THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE (1966), whose title is now a common phrase in our language. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is the third in the series, and it denies that men are created equal. Robert Ardrey maintains that since the publication of Rousseau's Contrat social two centuries ago, men have wasted social resources, converted much of education into a process of brainwashing, committed themselves to one form of political insanity after another, in pursuit of a goal that is a natural impossibility in any sexually reproducing species. He even denies that his thesis should be regarded as controversial, since he is merely presenting a body of scientific proof for what we should all know to be true.
Discarding the myth, Robert Ardrey combines his vast knowledge of animal ways with the new... Tovább

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For the past decade Robert Ardrey has been exploding a series of Philosophical land-mines. AFRICAN GENESIS (1961) introduced his new evolutionary approach to an understanding of men. T^hen carne THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE (1966), whose title is now a common phrase in our language. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is the third in the series, and it denies that men are created equal. Robert Ardrey maintains that since the publication of Rousseau's Contrat social two centuries ago, men have wasted social resources, converted much of education into a process of brainwashing, committed themselves to one form of political insanity after another, in pursuit of a goal that is a natural impossibility in any sexually reproducing species. He even denies that his thesis should be regarded as controversial, since he is merely presenting a body of scientific proof for what we should all know to be true.
Discarding the myth, Robert Ardrey combines his vast knowledge of animal ways with the new insights of modern biology and the newest revelations concerning human evolution to probe perplexing contemporary problems: the revolt of the young, the status struggle and the role of leadership, population control, urban overcrowding, violence in civilized life.
He makes scientific conclusions visible for the layman in a way that scientists can rarely accomplish in a brilliant new book that offers a powerful challenge to accustomed thought.
'is he right? The answer is that nine times out of ten he hits the nail on the head." C. D. Darlington, Sunday Times
'He has combined to quite an unbelievable degree the demands of the ignorant layman and those of the responsible scientist.' Anthony Jay, Nova
'Brilliant, fertile and exciting. I urge and beg you to read It.' Graham Lord, Sunday Express
'An Important book.' Spectator
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THE AUTHOR
Robert Ardrey was born in Chicago in 1908 and graduated from the University of Chicago, where he began studying the sciences of man. For years a successful playwright, he returned to the study of man fifteen years ago on a visit to Africa. When not researching in the field, he lives in Rome with his wife, the former Berdine Grunewald, whose drawings illustrate his booi<s,
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What the critics have said
AFRICAN GENESIS
'A new and radical interpretation of human behaviour. deserves the most serious attention on the part of scientists as well as laymen.' Dr. Kenneth Oakley, Senior Scientist, British Museum (Natural History)
'This is an extraordinary and stimulating bool<.' Jaquetta Hawkes, Observer
'The author has synthesized a mass of difficult and obscure material and presented it with the excitement of a detective story.' Economist
THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
'He has succeeded in reading, assimilating and reducing to order an immense amount of biological information not easily available to the general public . There can be few biologists who could not learn something from reading him.' Sunday Times
'Only rarely are scientists able to communicate the excitement of their discoveries in lively language that all can understand . Many of the conclusions of this important book are controversial, even provocative, but it represents a clear new philosophical idea at a time when those we have are becoming rather threadbare.' The Times Educational Supplement
'A brilliant, important and entertaining book.' Punch


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