Pablo Servigne - Mutual Aid

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2 Title Page MUTUAL AID The Other Law of the Jungle Pablo Servigne and Gauthier Chapelle Translated by Andrew Brown polity

3 Copyright Originally published in French as L’entraide. L’autre loi de la jungle © Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2017. This edition is published by arrangement with Les Liens qui Libèrent in conjunction with its duly appointed agent Books and More Agency #BAM, Paris, France. All rights reserved. This English edition © Polity Press, 2022 Excerpt from Dans la lumière et les ombres by Jean Claude Ameisen reproduced with kind permission of Librairie Arthème Fayard. © Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2008 Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4793-7 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021938636 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

4 Acknowledgements Notes

5 Foreword Notes

6 Introduction: The age of mutual aid The law of the jungle A potentially fatal paralysis The emergence of another law of the jungle The construction site of the new century Notes

7 1 The history of a forgetting Everywhere, all the time, and in every colour Why society didn't see it – a story of myths Why science didn’t see it – a story of genes Notes

8 2 Spontaneous mutual aid Contrary to popular belief … How are we to explain these automatisms? Notes

9 3 Group mechanisms The hard core of mutual aid: reciprocity The transition to the group: extended reciprocity Very large groups: invisible reciprocity Notes

10 4 The spirit of the group A magical moment: when the group becomes one Towards universal principles? Mutual aid taken to the extreme A tragic moment: when mutual aid collapses Notes

11 5 Beyond the group The big bad wolf principle Can groups provide mutual aid to each other? Notes

12 6 Since the dawn of time The evolution of human mutual aid The evolution of mutual aid between peers The evolution of mutual aid between species An endless source of innovation Notes

13 Conclusion: The new face of mutual aid Much more than just a law of the jungle The main principles of mutual aid Towards a new vision of mutual aid Notes

14 Epilogue: For which world? Are we going to kill each other? Towards another mythology Beyond humankind Notes

15 Appendix: On the ‘new sociobiology’ An earthquake in the land of sociobiology The various evolutionary forces behind mutual aid Notes

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1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page

4 Copyright

5 Acknowledgements

6 Foreword

7 Introduction: The age of mutual aid

8 Begin Reading

9 Conclusion: The new face of mutual aid

10 Epilogue: For which world?

11 Appendix: On the ‘new sociobiology’

12 End User License Agreement

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Pablo Servigne and Gauthier Chapelle

Translated by Andrew Brown

polity

Originally published in French as L’entraide. L’autre loi de la jungle © Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2017. This edition is published by arrangement with Les Liens qui Libèrent in conjunction with its duly appointed agent Books and More Agency #BAM, Paris, France. All rights reserved.

This English edition © Polity Press, 2022

Excerpt from Dans la lumière et les ombres by Jean Claude Ameisen reproduced with kind permission of Librairie Arthème Fayard. © Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2008

Polity Press

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All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4793-7

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.