Inconvenient Human: Desire, Power, Grief, and the Limits of Self-Mastery

Human beings carry desires, loyalties, ambitions, fears, and grief older than the rules meant to govern them. Society can restrain those forces, redirect them, profit from them, or condemn them. It cannot erase them by declaring them unacceptable.Daniel Berry began this book with an argument about human nature. The closer he examined it, the more the argument returned him to his own life: intimacy...