03472cam a2200505 i 4500 488404 488404 20381115 US-DLC 20180522105411.0 180228t20182018nyuad b 001 0 eng d 2017301147 9780525427575 (hardcover) 0525427570 (hardcover) 9780698177888 (ebook) 9780525559023 (international edition) (OCoLC)ocn993692045 YDX eng YDX rda LIV M$K OCLCO BLP GP5 IH9 FM0 IUK TXDRI TYPML YAM UAB NYP NDS TSC WLU TXMAL OCLCQ IGA DLC lccopycat Alfaisal Main Library HM891 .P56 2018 Pinker, Steven, 1954- author. Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / Steven Pinker. New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018] ©2018 xix, 556 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index. Dare to understand! -- Entro, evo, info -- Counter-enlightenments -- 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 -- Reason -- Science -- Humanism. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve 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. Pinker makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress. Progress. Civilization, Modern 21st century. Enlightenment. Social change. Quality of life. Humanism. Reason. Progress. Social change. PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology. bisacsh SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. bisacsh local 4 Print books. lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2018-05-22 0 HM891 .P56 2018 AU00000000012023 2018-05-22 00:00:00 250.00 2018-05-22 BOOKS