Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-08-01
Books mentioned on The Bastard Manifesto
In Episode 77, Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus and Producer, Sophie Lichterman for look into what Robert calls, Bastards 101. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.
Robert Evans discussed The end of history by Francis Fukuyama, 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson, Ancient Society by Lewis Henry Morgan, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels, and A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, and criticized Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The end of history
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is a political philosophy book arguing that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the final endpoint of humanity's ideological evolution.
Discussed“In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a political scientist and author, wrote an essay titled The End of History. Looking forward just a little bit, he was able to see the fall of the Soviet Union was on the very near horizon.”
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12 Rules for Life
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B.
Discussed“But he also ties into authoritarianism because in his best-selling book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Dr. Peterson argues that strict hierarchies are natural and healthy, at least to some extent.”
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Sex at Dawn
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá is an exploration of human sexuality that challenges conventional ideas about monogamy by examining evolutionary biology and primate behavior.
Critiqued“And the other thing that is important here is that if we're talking about like this book, Sex at Dawn, which is a really interesting book, focuses a lot on one of like the polyandress species of monkeys, bonobos, but ignores that there are a lot of monogamous species as well.”
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Ancient Society
Discussed“I'm going to quote from a Guardian report on the matter. The first real splash in this arena came from the anthropologist Lewis Morgan in his book Ancient Society. In the book, Morgan presented the results of his study”
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Discussed“Morgan's work hit a broader audience when it was taken up by Friedrich Les, most famous for being the co-author of the Communist Manifesto in his book, The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State. Less drew on Morgan's data, as well as evidence from around the world”
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A Thousand Plateaus
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is a prominent philosophical work that explores complex concepts of capitalism, schizophrenia, and social structures.
Discussed“I came across a study of how fascists were using the internet back in the late 90s and early 2000s to keep their movement alive. The study study was written up by a researcher named Les Black and in it he cites a book called a thousand plateaus capitalism and schizophrenia from 1986.”
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