Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Pinker, Steven

ISBN 10: 0525559027 / ISBN 13: 9780525559023

Published by Allen Lane Penguin Random House UK

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Title: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, ...

Publisher: Allen Lane Penguin Random House UK

Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis:

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom. In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide.

Review:

A salutary reminder of the material progress modern science and commerce have delivered (The New York Times)

Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations (Independent)

He writes like an angel (Matt Ridley Economist)

Pinker is a paragon of exactly the kind of intellectual honesty and courage we need (David Brooks The New York Times)

If 2017 was a rough year for you, look no further than Steven Pinker's engaging new book, Enlightenment Now, to cheer you up. Conceived before Donald Trump even announced his candidacy, it could not have been better timed to clarify - and, for some, refute - the habits of mind that brought Trump and the GOP to power ... Pinker's gift is to challenge us not only to update the Enlightenment, but to think beyond it (Washington Post)

Negative news is one reason why people consistently underestimate the progress humanity is making. To discern the true state of the world, Pinker says, we should use numbers. In Enlightenment Now, he does just that. The result is magnificent, uplifting and makes you want to rush to your laptop and close your Twitter account ... Pinker is surely right. Things are not falling apart. (Economist)

A valuable book ... Enlightenment Now can hardly be bettered (Boston Globe)

Persuasive... Pinker's book focuses on the Enlightenment as a philosophical perspective, as a distinctive way of looking at the position of individuals within modern society. Enlightenment Now is a spirited defence of the enduring ideals of this tradition (Times Higher Education)

A careful and deeply researched piece of work ... Pinker is bravely prepared to be the bearer of good news (Guardian)

The most uplifting work of science I've ever read (Science)