The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker

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Author: Steven Pinker

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Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN 10: 0142003344
ISBN 13: 978-0142003343

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Publisher: Viking
ISBN 10: 0670031518
ISBN 13: 978-0670031511

A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.

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

Now 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.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature