From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. So is the cup half full or half empty? 128 pages.

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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead

Verlag

Oneworld Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1786070766

ISBN-13

9781786070760

Einband

Paperback

Zustand

Good

Gewicht

600 Gramm

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‘It’s just a brute fact that we don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don’t execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.’
–Steven Pinker

‘The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.’
–Malcolm Gladwell

In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the world’s most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era…

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STEVEN PINKER is a pioneering cognitive scientist who has written a number of of bestselling and award-winning books. He is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard and has been named by Time magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World."

MATT RIDLEY’s books have been finalists for nine major literary prizes and sold over one million copies. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

ALAIN DE BOTTON is a philosopher who has written about love, travel, architecture, and literature. His books have been bestsellers in thirty countries. De Botton also started and helps to run the London-based School of Life.

MALCOLM GLADWELL is a Canadian journalist and the author of five New York Times bestsellers. He has been named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine and one of Foreign Policy magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers."

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