The art of selfishness

Author's name: Dominique Lacordaire Publisher: Zaat for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Human Sciences Book overview: When selfishness is this beautiful we hate selfish people we see them in their isolation as pathetic or perhaps 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 Lacordaire tears off the mask of virtue from our faces and reveals a truth we all ignore altruism itself is burdened with hidden selfishness this is not just another book about good behavior but a bold confrontation with the human self with all its contradictions and dualities between the myth of the selfish giant of Oscar Wilde and La Fontaine's strictness the author questions whether we really need to think of others to be moral