The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels...
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Author: Steven Pinker
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Pinker, Steven

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

$33.80

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

$33.80
Author: Steven Pinker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now.

"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Updated with a new afterword

One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 08/26/2003
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780142003343
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/21/2003 pg. 32
Vanity Fair 11/01/2008 pg. 112

About the Author
Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature, 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.

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