{"product_id":"9780141979090","title":"Enlightenment Now : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Pinker, Steven, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/01\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 576 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Ethics \u0026amp; moral philosophy, Social \u0026amp; political philosophy, Philosophy of science\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141979090\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eTOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer, happier, more peaceful, more stimulating and more prosperous - not just in the West, but worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent and inspiring value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress. The challenges we face today are formidable, including inequality, climate change, Artificial Intelligence and nuclear weapons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn making the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how we can use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitably come with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe. We will never have a perfect world, but - defying the chorus of fatalism and reaction - we can continue to make it a better one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35021559857305,"sku":"9780141979090","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780141979090_28440419-9919-4853-9aed-f2c3abb258e0.jpg?v=1601395677","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780141979090","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}