Book description
In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development-and is likely to determine our fate as a species.
Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and interconnected world…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Empathic Civilization as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have always doubted the claim that people are predominantly violent and egotistical and can never change. Jeremy Rifkin, in this well-researched book, shows that despite humanity’s history of conflicts and misery, human beings have the potential, and have already begun, to create an empathic, global society.
A book such as this is needed to help us understand history as a process of humanity’s gradual maturing.
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