Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now

When Truth and Reason Are No Longer Enough - The Atlantic

The strength of Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker's new book, is that it articulates the first part of this conversation. Pinker is a ...

Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don ...

His new book, “Enlightenment Now,” is a spirited and exasperated rebuke to anyone who refuses to concede that the world is becoming a better ...

Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now is a huge hit. Too bad it ...

Steven Pinker's new book on the Enlightenment is a huge hit. Too bad it gets the Enlightenment wrong. ... Pinker's hyper-optimism and faith in ...

My new favorite book of all time | Bill Gates

Enlightenment Now takes the approach he uses in Better AngelsBetter Angels to track violence throughout history and applies it to 15 different measures of ...

Enlightenment Now: A summary - The Roots of Progress

To elaborate, the message of the book is that reason, science and humanism—which Pinker identifies as the key themes of the Enlightenment—have, ...

Review: Steven Pinker's “Enlightenment Now” - words and dirt

In a cultural milieu where doubling down on embattled ideological positions and demonizing one's opponents is routine, it becomes heroic to ...

All Book Marks reviews for Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now is a bold, wonderfully expansive and occasionally irate defence of scientific rationality and liberal humanism, of the sort that took root in ...

Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker review – life is getting better

Steven Pinker demonstrates how a man who professes to be guided by reason, logic and the enlightenment can be thoroughly unreasonable, illogical ...

Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now - Shtetl-Optimized

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and ...

Steven Pinker takes 500 pages to create a world where everything is so fabulously much better than it ever has been, that anyone who says different is ...

Review Excerpts for Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now strikes me as an excellent book, lucidly written, timely, rich in data and eloquent in its championing of a rational humanism.

"Enlightenment Now," by Steven Pinker, reviewed by Ada Palmer

Steven Pinker argues there is a second, more profound assault on the Enlightenment's legacy of progress, coming from within intellectual and artistic spheres.

Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker's embarrassing new book is ...

Judged as a contribution to thought, Enlightenment Now is embarrassingly feeble. With its primitive scientism and manga-style history of ideas, ...

Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now Is Mostly Right | National Review

Pinker (unsurprisingly) defends his positions very compellingly. His arguments are powerful and often convincing, and for that reason they deserve to be ...

Enlightenment Now | Critical Reflections, Critical Reviews, & Notes

Steven Pinker. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Penguin Random House, 2018.

What does Pinker and Enlightenment now get wrong? - Reddit

Pinker also doesn't engage with counter enlightenment thinkers which is a shame as right wing critiques of the enlightenment are rarely ...

The limitations of Steven Pinker's optimism - Nature

Although it is framed as a historically informed template for a new age of reason, Enlightenment Now ultimately becomes something else: an ...

Steven Pinker Continues to See the Glass Half Full

In “Enlightenment Now,” the Harvard professor offers much evidence ... Review. 2024 Booker Prize: Most bets were on Percival Everett's ...

Enlightenment and Progress, or why Steven Pinker is wrong

The bulk of Enlightenment Now, from chapters 4 to 20, is, in effect, a graph–packed riff on P.J. O'Rourke's famous one word response to the idea ...

Nicholas Maxwell, Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment NOW

Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment NOW" is in many ways a terrific book, from which I have learnt much. But it is also deeply flawed.