by Albert Jacquard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020093446
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«L'héritage de la liberté : De l'animalité à l'humanitude» is the philosophical essay by Albert Jacquard, published by Seuil in 1986 (209 pages, in French).
Starting from the interest of the sciences in the human being, Jacquard analyses the risks of an ideological popularisation disguised as science, especially sociobiology. He examines what biology really says about the foundations of social behaviour and whether genetic determinism weighs unavoidably on humanity. Against that determinism, he posits freedom as a task: being human means wanting to be free, and that freedom must be built and transmitted.
The work is part of the «Science ouverte» collection and was published in Paris. Its approach combines philosophy, biology and genetics and includes a bibliography.
For readers interested in philosophy, biology and debates on determinism, sociobiology and free will.
Albert Jacquard was a French geneticist, popularizer of science and essayist.
