Enlightenment now the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress
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. Fa...
| Main Author: | Pinker, Steven, 1954- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2018]
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| Summary: |
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 naìˆve 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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| Physical Description: |
xix, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0525427570 9780525427575 |
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