Description: A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." -- Time Now 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.
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Book Title: Blank Slate : the Modern Denial of Human Nature
Item Length: 9.2 in
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Author: Steven Pinker
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Psychology, Developmental / General
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2003
Genre: Psychology, Science
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Number of Pages: 560 Pages
