vii Contents Preface ix Introduction The Cooperative Frame of Mind 3 Part One Cooperation Shaped 1 ‘The Social Question’ Reformers in Paris Explore a Puzzle 35 2 The Fragile Balance Competition and Cooperation in Nature and Culture 65 3 The ‘Great Unsettling’ How the Reformation Transformed Cooperation 96 Part Two Cooperation Weakened 4 Inequality Imposed and Absorbed in Childhood 133 5 The Social Triangle How Social Relations Become Embittered at Work 149 6 The Uncooperative Self The Psychology of Withdrawal 148 179 Copyright Yale University, From "Together" by Richard Sennett Copyright Yale University, From "Together" by Richard Sennett