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082	0	0	_a303.44 _223
100	1		_aPinker, Steven, _d1954- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEnlightenment now : _bthe case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / _cSteven Pinker.
264		1	_aNew Delhi : _bAllen Lane an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_axix, 556 p. : _bill., charts ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index.
505	0		_aDare 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.
520			_aIs 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.
650		0	_aProgress.
650		0	_aCivilization, Modern _y21st century.
650		0	_aEnlightenment.
650		0	_aSocial change.
650		0	_aQuality of life.
650		0	_aHumanism.
650		0	_aReason.
650		1	_aProgress.
650		4	_aSocial change.
650		7	_aPSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. _2bisacsh
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