The art of selfishness

When was selfishness this beautiful that we hate selfish people we see them in their isolation pathetic or perhaps it was harmful refusing to make others happy we celebrate those who sacrifice themselves for the happiness of the group we present them as heroes and raise them as symbols of love and virtue but who said that the world is that simple in this bold book Dominique Lacour tears the mask of virtue from our faces and reveals a truth we all ignore altruism itself is burdened with hidden selfishness this is not another book about good behavior but a bold confrontation with human nature with all its contradictions and dualities between the myth of the selfish giant of Oscar Wilde and the severity of La Fontaine the author questions whether we really should think of others to be moral