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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
Page: 0
Format: epub
ISBN: 1101544643, 9781101544648

Seibert May 27, 2013 at 10:25 pm. One just rarely meets a book that can fulfill all of your reading-needs at the same time. Steven Pinker's, "The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. At least, not if you're interested in decreasing human violence (592). Both Pinker and It takes only a single page of preamble before he lays out his grisly stall to try and sell us his grislier thesis, which as far as I can understand it, is basically that everyone was once generally violent and horrible (tribal people still are, apparently they are living relics of the past). Steven Pinker's, “The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.” Click for a preview, including the graphs mentioned below. The Better Angels of Our Nature. Titel: The Better Angels of Our Nature. But judging by Pinker's latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, he's also not a cynical pessimist. This old colonial idea was first popularly resurrected by Steven Pinker, not Diamond, so it's time to peruse the former's mighty book, The Better Angels of Our Nature. It's fitting that I read Hans Morgenthau's “Scientific Man vs Great Power Politics” beforehand, because Steve Pinker's “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” is almost its diametric opposite. 3 thoughts on “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”. Ľ�者: Steven Pinker 出版社: Viking Adult 副标题: Why Violence Has Declined 出版年: 2011-10 页数: 832 定价: USD 40.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670022953. This is a huge book, but as Pinker says, it is a huge subject. Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes (2011) ISBN 978-0670022953.