If every person cut us dead, and acted as if we were non existing things... On a recent book by the neurobiologist Joachim Bauer

Abstract

The article is a comment on the recent and stimulating book Schmerzgrenze (The threshold of pain) by the German neurobiologist Joachim Bauer, which has not been translated into Italian thus far, in which Bauer rejects the concept of an innately demonic aggressive drive in man and shows, with the help of recent neurobiological discoveries, how the primary motivations of Homo sapiens are, on the other hand, characterized by a tendency towards social aggregation (social brain).