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050 14 $aHM891$b.P56 2018
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100 1 $aPinker, Steven,$d1954-$eauthor.
245 10 $aEnlightenment now :$bthe case for reason, science, humanism, and progress /$cSteven Pinker.
264 1 $aNew York, New York :$bViking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,$c[2018]
264 4 $c℗♭2018
300 $axix, 556 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index.
505 0 $aPart I: Enlightenment -- Dare to understand! -- Entro, evo, info -- Counter-enlightenments -- Part II: Progress -- 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 -- Part III: Reason, science, and humanism -- Reason -- Science -- Humanism.
520 $aThe 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 nai ve 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.
650 0 $aProgress.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern$y21st century.
650 0 $aSocial change.
650 0 $aQuality of life.
650 0 $aHumanism.
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