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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker
$24.90
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Optimistic, data-driven defense of Enlightenment values.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by negative headlines, "Enlightenment Now" might be just what you need. Steven Pinker presents a compelling case that life is getting better across the globe, thanks to Enlightenment principles. It's a refreshing perspective backed by hard data and historical analysis that challenges doom and gloom narratives. This read could be a much-needed reminder of human progress and the potential for reason and science to improve our future.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker
$24.90
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ISBN: 9780525427575
Authors: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Viking
Date of Publication: 2018-02-13
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science, Politics, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Economics
Related Topics: Politics, Political Science, History, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Society
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 32097 readers)

Description

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
 

Optimistic, data-driven defense of Enlightenment values.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by negative headlines, "Enlightenment Now" might be just what you need. Steven Pinker presents a compelling case that life is getting better across the globe, thanks to Enlightenment principles. It's a refreshing perspective backed by hard data and historical analysis that challenges doom and gloom narratives. This read could be a much-needed reminder of human progress and the potential for reason and science to improve our future.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.