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The Blank Slate

The Modern Denial of Human Nature
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
560 Seiten
Englisch
Penguin USerschienen am26.08.2003
A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Updated with a new afterwordOne 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.mehr
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KlappentextA brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Updated with a new afterwordOne 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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-200334-3
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2003
Erscheinungsdatum26.08.2003
Seiten560 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht542 g
Artikel-Nr.11846882

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefacePart 1: The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the MachineChapter 1: The Official TheoryChapter 2: Silly PuttyChapter 3: The Last Wall to FallChapter 4: Culture VulturesChapter 5: The Slate's Last StandPart II: Fear and LoathingChapter 6: Political ScientistsChapter 7: The Holy TrinityPart III: Human Nature with a Human FaceChapter 8: The Fear of InequalityChapter 9: The Fear on ImperfectibilityChapter 10: The Fear of DeterminismChapter 11: The Fear of NihilismPart IV: Know ThyselfChapter 12: In Touch with RealityChapter 13: Out of Our DepthsChapter 14: The Many Roots of Our SufferingChapter 15: The Sanctimonious AnimalPart V: Hot ButtonsChapter 16: PoliticsChapter 17: ViolenceChapter 18: GenderChapter 19: ChildrenChapter 20: The ArtsPart VI: The Voice of the SpeciesAppendix: Donald E. Brown's List of Human UniversalsNotesReferencesIndexmehr
Kritik
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

"An extremely good book-clear, well argued, fair, learned, tough, witty, humane, stimulating." (The Washington Post)

"Pinker makes his main argument persuasively and with great verve...ought to be read by anybody who feels they hav had enough of the nature-nurture rows." (The Economist)

"Stylish...what a superb thinker and writer he is." (Richard Dawkins, TLS)

"Required reading...an unanswerable case for accepting that man can be, as he is, both wired and free." (Frederick Raphael, Los Angeles Times)mehr

Autor

Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature, is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.