出版社: Viking
副标题: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
出版年: 2018-2-27
页数: 576
定价: USD 35.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525427575
内容简介 · · · · · ·
The follow-up to Pinker’s groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant a...
The follow-up to Pinker’s groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual 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 jaw-dropping 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.
With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Steven Pinker 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 and one of Foreign Policy‘s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. His books include The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Th...
Steven Pinker 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 and one of Foreign Policy‘s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. His books include The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and The Sense of Style.
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只要“三观”不毁,我们就未来可期:理性和科学的启蒙永不过时
史蒂芬·平克对当前世界进行了全景式的评述,让读者了解人类状况的真相,人类面临怎样的挑战,以及该如何应对这些挑战。他呼吁我们避开惊悚的头条新闻和灰暗的末日预言,相反,用数据说话,平克论证人类的寿命、健康、食物、和平、知识、幸福等都呈向上趋势,这种趋势不仅限于西方,而是遍及全世界。这是启蒙运动的礼物——理性、科学和人文主义促进了人类的进步。
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作者史蒂芬·平克,出生于加拿大蒙特利尔,1979年取得哈佛大学实验心理学博士学位。1994年,他的《语言本能》一经出版,就成为轰动一时的畅销书,并入选《美国科学家》20世纪100本最佳科学书籍。2003年被聘为哈佛大学心理学教授。2008—2013年,被授予哈佛学院荣誉教授头衔。20... (展开)这就是我一直要找的那本书!强烈推荐
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0 有用 王的天 2018-07-27 15:37:19
第一次听完了一本语音书
0 有用 gavin.j 2018-05-04 21:00:05
人类的进步绝对不是误打误撞的奇迹,而是理性在暗夜里英雄主义的抗争。平克也绝非沦于精英主义的自我陶醉,而是恰如其分的阐释启蒙思想这个稀释在几个世纪里的概念的现世意义。
0 有用 入江直树 2022-06-07 21:20:50
Somewhat repetitive, but the quality of writing makes up for it. Each chapter is a great writing sample.
0 有用 Jimmy47 2022-10-08 09:54:51 黑龙江
万维刚精英日课2解读 资本主义的逻辑是演化,启蒙的逻辑是理性。你永远都不知道下一个好东西会发生在什么地方 —— 就好像基因突变一样。但是因为你有理性,你一旦看到好东西会识别和使用它 —— 就好像自然选择一样。只要这两个逻辑继续有效,那么启蒙运动三百年来的进步,就会继续进行下去。
0 有用 Lucia 2020-02-03 08:35:38
看过觉得心态稍微好一点,但是最近疫情洗礼得,感觉又要抑郁了,真的是,越看新闻越抑郁
0 有用 庄常飞 2024-12-02 04:16:43 美国
之前看Pinker觉得知识多,现在看Pinker觉得想一辩的点多
0 有用 Vivacious_turd 2024-11-22 17:33:19 美国
可以改名《哈佛名师助你GRE Verbal一本通》,当然书里的思想也是大部分美国高校会喜欢的。该书在特朗普第一次当选后发布,如今的世界有变得更加接近作者倡导的那样吗?可能更多人更在乎一盒鸡蛋的价格,这又何错之有,不必在乎的人更是何其有幸,那些更高尚美好的追求,不吃饱又怎么追得动呢
0 有用 Jimmy47 2022-10-08 09:54:51 黑龙江
万维刚精英日课2解读 资本主义的逻辑是演化,启蒙的逻辑是理性。你永远都不知道下一个好东西会发生在什么地方 —— 就好像基因突变一样。但是因为你有理性,你一旦看到好东西会识别和使用它 —— 就好像自然选择一样。只要这两个逻辑继续有效,那么启蒙运动三百年来的进步,就会继续进行下去。
0 有用 Jack 2022-08-24 23:49:38 福建
Beautifully written and hugely uplifting.
0 有用 Amos 2022-06-27 13:47:03
在英语写作上,Pinker是一流的。但在政治议题上,作为一个典型的globalist,他的观点天真,甚至愚蠢。Pinker对于“科学”有着近乎宗教般的虔诚,但是所谓科学,只是当前人类对于世界的理解,而这个理解是局限的,并不一定是绝对真理。历史已经反复证明了,前人的“科学”会不断地被后人的发现推翻。