EAN: 9780143111382

STEVEN PINKER - GEBRAUCHT ENLIGHTENMENT NOW THE...

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.  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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