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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker ebook
Publisher: Viking
Format: epub
Page: 0
ISBN: 1101544643, 9781101544648

I started this book 99.5% sure I'm just going to tell you what's wrong with this book and Pinker's thesis that violence has declined over time. When Fareed Zakaria mentioned Harvard professor Steven Pinker, he was making reference to Pinker's newest book, a 700 page behemoth entitled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. That's the arresting claim made by Harvard University cognitive neuroscientist Steven Pinker in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Review of “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Steven Pinker. At least, not if you're interested in decreasing human violence (592). But judging by Pinker's latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, he's also not a cynical pessimist. Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of our Nature argues that violence has been declining over the last several centuries, and continues to decline, even though the common wisdom seems to say the opposite. I battled my way through Better Angels. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker My rating: 5 of 5 stars. See or hear the brilliant Steven Pinker explain his masterpiece, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, as he presents his Long Now Foundation SALT talk in San Francisco. Panel discussion with Steven Pinker at Uppsala University, Sweden, March 2012. Yet this is exactly what scientist Steven Pinker asserts, backed by extensive research, in his remarkable book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. This old colonial idea was first popularly resurrected by Steven Pinker, not Diamond, so it's time to peruse the former's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature.