The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature

By:

Pinker, Steven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin Books USA 2016Description: xxii, 531 pISBN:

9780142003343

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

155.234 PIN

Summary: 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. (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/290730/the-blank-slate-by-steven-pinker/)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Human Resource and Organization Behvaiour	155.234 PIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		005254

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.

(https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/290730/the-blank-slate-by-steven-pinker/)

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