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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 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.
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Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker
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- Année de publication
- 2018
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- Titre
- Enlightenment Now
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Steven Pinker
- Éditeur
- Viking
- Publié
- 2018
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0525559027
- ISBN13
- 9780525559023
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Histoire, Sciences politiques & Politique, Thèmes psychologiques, Thématique philosophique, Politique, Philosophie, Science, Psychologie, Sociologie, Cadeaux pour papy
- Évaluation
- 4,2 sur 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 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.