Enlightenment Now. The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
Inbunden bok. Viking Publ. 2019. 556 sidor.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780525427575
- Titel
- Enlightenment now - the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress
- Författare
- Pinker, Steven
- Förlag
- Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
- Utgivningsår
- 2018
- Bandtyp
- Hardcover
- Mått
- 0 x 250 mm
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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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