Enlightenment now :
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TextPublication details: London : Penguin Books, 2019Description: 576 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141979090 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Progress | Social change | SocietyDDC classification: 303.44 LOC classification: HM891 | .P56 2019Summary: One of the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront us. Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Books | Main Library Non-Fiction - General Stacks | 303.44 .P655 2018 | Available | 30945 |
Originally published: New York: Viking, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
One of the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront us. Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies.