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Enlightenment Now

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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Enlightenment Now

Av: Steven Pinker
Berättare: Arthur Morey
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Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?

If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide.

Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realising it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress. The challenges we face today are formidable. But the way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved other problems in the past. This is the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century.

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Kritikerröster

My new favourite book of all time (Bill Gates)
Exhilarating, magnificent, uplifting
This is the biggest story of our time. It's about the many ways in which the world is improving, and why we don't believe it (Fraser Nelson)
Pinker is right. Not just a bit right, but completely, utterly, incontrovertibly right ... for most people, life is better, even if they don't realise it (Dominic Sandbrook)
Awesome. The confidence with which Pinker tears through the issues that cause such deep anxiety today is compelling (William Davies)
A characteristically fluent, decisive and data-rich demonstration of why, given the chance to live at any point in human history, only a stone-cold idiot would choose any time other than the present (Sam Leith)
A new, optimistic view of the world ... Things are not as bad as your Facebook news feed makes them seem ... a cheerful, contrarian tract for dark times (Niall Ferguson)
A goldmine of startling graphs and killer facts about the way we live now. Everyone should read this book and, just for once, be enthralled by what humankind has achieved (Iain Macwhirter)
Brimming with surprising data and entertaining anecdotes ... a genuinely enlightening book (Jan-Werner Müller)
Today we are living healthier, wealthier lives - and it's thanks to the values of the Enlightenment ... a passionate book in praise of Enlightenment values (David Aaronovitch)
Alla stjärnor
Mest relevant
Steven Pinker examines how human lives have been getting better and longer thanks to enlightenment values and exposes how different biases create the illusion of living in newly horrible times. He tries to pinpoint what has actually been responsible for progress and problems in the past and what we should do to ensure that human flourishing continues.
This is one of my favourite books of all times. More people need to be aware of how good we have it and that there has never been such a thing as a golden age that we should be nostalgic for. Definitely recommend to everyone

Makes you feel good about being a scientist

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Can only highly recommend to read it. The best book about reason, Enlightenment and a rational approach to understanding and living in our world, I have read in a very long time (or ever).

Outstanding

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Die Welt ist schlecht und geht praktisch täglich unter. So die nahezu tägliche Flut an schlechten Nachrichten in den Medien und OnlineForen.
Steven Pinker zeigt mit Hunderten an Beispielen das es bei all dem Grund zum Optimismus gibt. Eine wissenschaftlich fundierte höchst abwechslungsreiche Tour durch Aufklärung und Fortschritt.

Optimismus! Schön das sich jemand traut.

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Wichtiges Buch,
Gegengift gegen den Zynismus der Woken und Wahnsinnigen da draußen.

Ich kann es nur empfehlen

In einer Zeit voller Wokeness, sehr wichtig

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A great book, which I tell my pupils and colleagues about! Read it as soon as possible.

A fresh take on humanity at the moment!

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