The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
(Sprache: Englisch)
This radical reassessment of human progress will become the most famous book Steven Pinker has ever written.
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This radical reassessment of human progress will become the most famous book Steven Pinker has ever written.
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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, pogroms, gruesome punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened?
This groundbreaking book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives- the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away-and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.
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Praise for Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature
A New York Times Notable Book
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of the Year
A NetGalley Best of 2011
"For anyone interested in human nature, the material is engrossing, and when the going gets heavy, Pinker knows how to lighten it with ironic comments and a touch of humor. . . . A supremely important book. To have command of so much research, spread across so many different fields, is a masterly achievement."
- The New York Times Book Review
"An extraordinary range of research . . . a masterly effort."
- The Wall Street Journal
"It is quite a story, and Pinker tells it ably. There are stimulating thoughts on nearly every page."
- New York
" Better Angels is a monumental achievement. His book should make it much harder for pessimists to cling to their gloomy vision of the future. Whether war is an ancient adaptation or a pernicious cultural infection, we are learning how to overcome it."
-Slate.com
"Classic Pinker, jammed with facts, figures, and points of speculative departure; a big, complex book, well worth the effort for the good news that it delivers."
- Kirkus Reviews
"This long, well-researched, comprehensive tour de force provides a helpful look at the human condition."
- Booklist
"A hugely important work and major contribution to historiography."
-Niall Ferguson, professor of history, Harvard University, and
author of Civilization: The West and the Rest
PENGUIN BOOKS
THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE
Table of Contents
Praise for Steven Pinker's THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE
About the Author
Also by Steven Pinker
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
Chapter 1 - A FOREIGN COUNTRY
Chapter 2 - THE PACIFICATION PROCESS
Chapter 3 - THE CIVILIZING PROCESS
Chapter 4 - THE HUMANITARIAN REVOLUTION
Chapter 5 - THE LONG PEACE
Chapter 6 - THE NEW
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PEACE
Chapter 7 - THE RIGHTS REVOLUTIONS
Chapter 8 - INNER DEMONS
Chapter 9 - BETTER ANGELS
Chapter 10 - ON ANGELS' WINGS
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
TO
Eva, Carl, and Eric
Jack and David
Yael and Danielle
and the world they will inherit
What a chimera then is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and the scum of the universe.
-Blaise Pascal
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
1-1 Everyday violence in a bodybuilding ad, 1940s
1-2 Domestic violence in a coffee ad, 1952
2-1 The violence triangle
2-2 Percentage of deaths in warfare in nonstate and state societies
2-3 Rate of death in warfare in nonstate and state societies
2-4 Homicide rates in the least violent nonstate societies compared to state societies
3-1 Homicide rates in England, 1200-2000: Gurr's 1981 estimates
3-2 Homicide rates in England, 1200-2000
3-3 Homicide rates in five Western European regions, 1300-2000
3-4 Homicide rates in Western Europe, 1300-2000, and in nonstate societies
3-5 Detail from "Saturn ," Das Mittelalterliche Hausbuch ( The Medieval Housebook, 1475-80)
3-6 Detail from "Mars ," Das Mittelalterliche Hausbuch ( The Medieval Housebook, 1475-80)
3-7 Percentage of deaths of English
Chapter 7 - THE RIGHTS REVOLUTIONS
Chapter 8 - INNER DEMONS
Chapter 9 - BETTER ANGELS
Chapter 10 - ON ANGELS' WINGS
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
TO
Eva, Carl, and Eric
Jack and David
Yael and Danielle
and the world they will inherit
What a chimera then is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and the scum of the universe.
-Blaise Pascal
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
1-1 Everyday violence in a bodybuilding ad, 1940s
1-2 Domestic violence in a coffee ad, 1952
2-1 The violence triangle
2-2 Percentage of deaths in warfare in nonstate and state societies
2-3 Rate of death in warfare in nonstate and state societies
2-4 Homicide rates in the least violent nonstate societies compared to state societies
3-1 Homicide rates in England, 1200-2000: Gurr's 1981 estimates
3-2 Homicide rates in England, 1200-2000
3-3 Homicide rates in five Western European regions, 1300-2000
3-4 Homicide rates in Western Europe, 1300-2000, and in nonstate societies
3-5 Detail from "Saturn ," Das Mittelalterliche Hausbuch ( The Medieval Housebook, 1475-80)
3-6 Detail from "Mars ," Das Mittelalterliche Hausbuch ( The Medieval Housebook, 1475-80)
3-7 Percentage of deaths of English
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Autoren-Porträt von Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.
Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Steven Pinker
- 2011, 832 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Viking Adult
- ISBN-10: 0670023159
- ISBN-13: 9780670023158
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"For anyone interested in human nature, the material is engrossing, and when the going gets heavy, Pinker knows how to lighten it with ironic comments and a touch of humor ... a supremely important book. To have command of so much research, spread across so many different fields, is a masterly achievement." - The New York Times Book Review "...an extraordinary range of research ... a masterly effort." - The Wall Street Journal
" ... Better Angels is a monumental achievement. His book should make it much harder for pessimists to cling to their gloomy vision of the future. Whether war is an ancient adaptation or a pernicious cultural infection, we are learning how to overcome it." - Slate.com
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