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  1. Enlightenment now
    the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Allen Lane, London ; Viking, New York

    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... more

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    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 "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."--Dust jacket

     

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  2. Humanistische Reflexionen
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Suhrkamp, Berlin

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783518297803
    RVK Categories: CC 7500 ; CC 7600 ; CC 7200 ; MD 6300 ; EC 2430 ; MS 1290 ; CC 8200
    Edition: 2., durchgesehene Auflage
    Series: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft ; 2180
    Subjects: Humanismus; Erneuerung; Ethik; Philosophische Anthropologie; Sprachphilosophie; Politische Philosophie; ; Humanismus; ; Philosophie; Politik;
    Scope: 474 Seiten
  3. Handbuch Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie
    Contributor: Weiß, Gabriele (HerausgeberIn); Zirfas, Jörg (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Springer VS, Wiesbaden

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Weiß, Gabriele (HerausgeberIn); Zirfas, Jörg (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3658190035; 9783658190033
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    Subjects: Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungstheorie; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Politische Philosophie; Sozialphilosophie; Ästhetik; ; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildung; Pädagogik; Bildungstheorie; Politische Philosophie; Erkenntnistheorie; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Sozialphilosophie; Ästhetik;
    Scope: XIV, 696 Seiten
  4. Handbuch Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie
    Contributor: Weiß, Gabriele (HerausgeberIn); Zirfas, Jörg (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Springer VS, Wiesbaden

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Weiß, Gabriele (HerausgeberIn); Zirfas, Jörg (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3658190035; 9783658190033
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    9783658190033
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    Subjects: Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungstheorie; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Politische Philosophie; Sozialphilosophie; Ästhetik; ; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildung; Pädagogik; Bildungstheorie; Politische Philosophie; Erkenntnistheorie; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Sozialphilosophie; Ästhetik;
    Scope: XIV, 696 Seiten
  5. Enlightenment now
    the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress
    Published: 2019; © 2018
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, [London]

    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... more

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    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 "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."--Dust jacket

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780141979090
    RVK Categories: CQ 1000 ; CC 7500 ; HD 226 ; HF 330 ; EC 2410 ; CC 6600
    Subjects: Progress; Civilization, Modern; Enlightenment; Social change; Quality of life; Humanism; Reason; Progress; Civilization, Modern; Enlightenment; Social change; Quality of life; Humanism; Reason; PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Civilization, Modern; Enlightenment; 15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other
    Scope: xvii, 556 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index

  6. Enlightenment now
    the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Viking, New York ; Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London]

    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... more

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    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 "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."--Dust jacket

     

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