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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naive hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation
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Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Enlightenment Now
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Steven Pinker
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 576
- ISBN10
- 0143111388
- ISBN13
- 9780143111382
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Political Science & Politics, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Psychology, Politics, Science, Gifts for grandpa, Sociology
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naive hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation