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Enlightenment Now : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker (2019, Trade Paperback)

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: 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. By the author of the new book, Rationality . Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve 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. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.

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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143111388
ISBN-13
9780143111382
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Enlightenment Now : the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Author
Steven Pinker
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology / General, Social History, General, Violence in Society, Movements / Rationalism, Social Psychology, Movements / Humanism
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Psychology, Science, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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8.4in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz

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303.44
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

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HOW COULD ONE NOT APPRECIATE A WORK THAT IS SO INCREDIBLY POSITIVE ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD? wITH LUCK, THIS WILL REPLACE EVERYTHING IN PRINT.
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