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A philosophical inquiry into the origins and motivation of war. Ehrenreich, a biologist at Rockefeller University, considers the urge to war to be rooted in primitive drives toward blood sacrifice and hunting.
| Size | | Length: | 292 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[Ehrenrich] has accomplished a very rare feat of writing--a philosophical page turner. She has tackled one of the big questions and made us re-examine what it means to be human."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Tom Gallagher (04/04/1997)
"The book clocks in at a mere 241 pages, and the content sometimes shows some strain in its breeziness: Ehrenreich's provocative, intuitive ideas simply aren't given enough room to fully cohere. But her explanation for war is the last thing one might expect--satisfying--because her equation includes both the subtleties of human nature and a stunningly wide range of human experience."
Salon - Megan Harlan (05/28/1997)
"Ehrenreich's work is convincing, at least to the general reader."
Trevelyan
"This book is soaked with the blood of ancient dangers, rituals and practices that, Barbara Ehrenreich argues, invested war with passions that still rule us today. The torrent of blood here--mythological and real, historical and current, human and animal--would be repellent, except that Ms. Ehrenreich presents it only to serve her argument. One of today's most original writers has tackled one of humankind's most intractable subjects, one comparable in mystery to sexuality, another topic she has taken on."
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