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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Pinker, S. (2018). Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress. Large print ed. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Pinker, Steven, 1954-. 2018. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Pinker, Steven, 1954-, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Large print ed. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage, 2018.
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