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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pinker, Steven, 1954- author.     Subjects     Progress.     Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.     Enlightenment.     Social change.     Quality of life.     Humanism.     Reason.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pinker, Steven, 1954- author.       by title:      Enlightenment now [l...         MARC Display

Enlightenment now [large type] : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / Steven Pinker. by Pinker, Steven, 1954- author. Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018. Subjects Progress.   Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.   Enlightenment.   Social change.   Quality of life.   Humanism.   Reason. ISBN:  9781432853167 (large print : hardcover) 1432853163 (large print : hardcover) Series:  Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction. Description:  835 pages (large print) : illustrations. Edition:  Large Print edition. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT 303.44 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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