The Inconvenient Human Desire, Power, Grief, and the Limits of Self-Mastery
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
27.08.2026
Verlag
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpSeitenzahl
176
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.1 cm
Gewicht
222 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798170121663
Human beings carry desires, loyalties, ambitions, fears, and grief older than the rules meant to govern them. Society can restrain those forces, redirect them, profit from them, or condemn them. It cannot erase them by declaring them unacceptable.
Daniel Berry began this book with an argument about human nature. The closer he examined it, the more the argument returned him to his own life: intimacy and the need to be chosen, the hunger for recognition and belonging, the uses of power and ambition, the duties attached to strength, and the grief and faith that resist mastery.
Through personal narrative and evidence-grounded inquiry, The Inconvenient Human rejects two easy answers: that every natural impulse is good, or that moral order can be built by denying what people are. Instead, it asks how families, communities, traditions, technology, and our own choices shape what is already within us, and how those parts of our nature can answer to responsibility without being shamed out of existence.
Neither memoir alone nor abstract theory, this is an invitation to examine what we carry, what the world around us makes of it, and what we are permitted to become.
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