Sapiens Reconsidered: What We Are, How We Became Human, and Where the Story Went Wrong - Couverture souple

Peterson, Reagan

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798173447616

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Who are we, and who decided it would be this way?

How did a handful of fragile primates, with no claws and no fangs, end up deciding the fate of the planet, and then deciding their own laws? Historians, philosophers and social scientists have circled the question for centuries. And the sweeping books that claim to answer it now sell in the millions.

This book takes them seriously. Then it shows where they go off the rails.

Five hundred pages of inquiry, from the first stone tools to the algorithm that refuses your credit and cannot say why, picking up the story of our species where it was badly told. History, anthropology, law, economics, philosophy: everything is called in, none of it in jargon. Language you understand the first time, with nothing given up on rigour. And every claim carries its standing, from the firmly established to the openly disputed, so you always know what you are being asked to believe.

Then comes the part that is about you.

The counter. The contract. The pay scale. The app that docks a third of your fare and answers to nobody. The book opens them one by one and puts them back into the long history of our species and of the way it organises itself.

You will stop repeating the small sentence you were taught as a child: “that is just how it is.” You will have what you need to see what is really at stake in a human life and in a society.

A great deal has been written lately to say that kings, gods, money and nations are nothing but fictions, stories the species tells itself. That was a step forward. This author goes further, and corrects the account that has since taken over.

Not one border fell out of the sky. Not one price grows in a field. Human beings laid all of it down, with their hands, their registers and sometimes their weapons. And what human beings have made, other human beings can unmake.

With this book you will take apart, piece by piece, what governs you. And you will finally have an answer for the people who swear that nothing can change.

One warning. This book costs something. After you read it, you will not be able to say “there is nothing I can do” with the same clear conscience.

Instead of repeating “that is how it is,” you will start saying: “that is how we made it.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798173447616
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 510
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg