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The Modern Denial of Human Nature

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Publisher Description

A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of RationalityThe Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now.

"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Updated with a new afterword

One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind  explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

GENRE
Health, Mind & Body
RELEASED
2002
September 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
528
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
4.9
MB

Customer Reviews

MikeInOsaka ,

Required Reading

This book should be read by everyone.

In understanding others, we begin to understand ourselves. I now understand myself better and I say that humbled.

Wish I had read this book before traveling around the world.

daymude ,

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More food for thought than I will ever digest. But there will no be any indigestion.

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