Enlightenment now : : the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Is the world falling apart? Is progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to stop 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 worldwide. Far from being a naive hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked.
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PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 835 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781432853167
1432853163
SUBJECTS
Humanism.
Quality of life.
Social change.
Progress.
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.