Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress

Pinker, Steven 1954- (author.).

Summary: 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 naive 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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ISBN: 9780525427575
ISBN: 0525427570
ISBN: 9780525559023
ISBN: 0525559027
ISBN: 9780698177888
ISBN: 0698177886
Physical Description: print
xix, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Dare to understand! -- Entro, evo, info -- Counter-enlightenments -- Progressophobia -- Life -- Health -- Sustenance -- Wealth -- Inequality -- The environment -- Peace -- Safety -- Terrorism -- Democracy -- Equal rights -- Knowledge -- Quality of life -- Happiness -- Existential threats -- The future of progress -- Reason -- Science -- Humanism.

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