TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinker,Steven
TI  - Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism and progress 
SN  - 9780141979090 (pbk.) :
AV  - HM891 .P56 2019
U1  - 303.44 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Progress
KW  - Social change
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: New York: Viking, 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -