To Be Human Against All Odds

by Frederick Franck

To Be Human Against All Odds: On the Reptile Still Active in Our Brain (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture) [Apr 01, 1991] Franck, Frederick This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895819457
• ISBN13: 9780895819451
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Asian Humanities Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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To Be Human Against All Odds

Excerpt from book's Foreword by James W. Heisig, editor of the Nanzan Studes in Religion and Culture of which this book is a part: " As for the "conclusions" drawn in this book, they are cast roughly, like one of Franck's icons. After a careful reading of the work of the neuroscientist Paul MacLean, he has applied the metaphor of the vestigal, but still active, reptilian brain to the enduring presence of inhumanity among us towards ourselves, towards other animals, towards the planet. Given this diagnosis. it is not in some form of surgical removal or therapeutic repression that our healing cure lies but only in seeing, in "unmasking" the viper within and integrating it as part - but only a part - of what it means to be human."