Love and Hate - A Natural History of Behavior Patterns

Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt

Aldine Transaction

1996

276 páginas

9h 12m

ISBN-10: 020202038X

Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (Born June 15, 1928) is founder of the field of human ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to volumes studying animal behavior.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Eibl-Eibesfeldt studied Zoology at the University of Vienna 1945-1949. From 1946 to 1948 he was research associate at the Biological Station Wilhelminenberg near Vienna and became research associate of the Institute for Comparative Behavior Studies in Altenberg near Vienna with Konrad Lorenz in 1949. 1951 to 1969 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology (first in Westphalia, from 1957 at Seewiesen, Bavaria). 1970 he became Professor for Zoology at the University of Munich. Since 1975 he is the head of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Department of Human Ethology in Andechs, Germany. He was the co-founder and first president of the International Society for Human Ethology. Since 1992 he is Honorary Director of the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna.
In the first twenty years of his work as an animal ethologist he investigated experimentally and descriptively the development of behavior of mammals and compared the behavior of communication of vertebrates. His is the author of many books like Love and Hate: The Natural History of Behavior Patterns.

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Interessante análise do comportamento humano do ponto de vista filogenético e a partir da observação e comparação entre diferentes povos. Gostei demais do modo como o autor introduz críticas políticas no trabalho dele, sem maniqueísmo e sem fanatismo por um lado ou outro, o que deixa a análise super objetiva.

"As potencialidades do Bem são biologicamente tão nossas como as do auto-aniquilamento. Neste planeta árido, a vida foi sempre ascendendo sob novas formas, das algas mais simples até ao homem, que medita sobre esta criação, trata por sua vez de lhe dar forma e, ao fazê-lo, talvez acabe com ela. Seria, certamente, um modo muito grotesco de resolver a questão relativa ao sentido da vida".

Faço ressalvas ao entendimento da evolução como algo ascendente, mas ainda assim, fazendo uma leitura crítica do trecho acima, é de uma ironia genial. Enfim, não esperava nada, mas esse livro entregou tudo.