The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature /
Pinker, Steven, 1954-
The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature / Steven Pinker. - New York : Viking, 2002. - xvi, 509 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-489) and index.
Official theory -- Silly putty -- Last wall to fall -- Culture vultures -- Slate's last stand -- Political scientists -- Holy trinity -- Fear of inequality -- Fear of imperfectibility -- Fear of determinism -- Fear of nihilism -- In touch with reality -- Out of our depths -- Many roots of our suffering -- Sanctimonious animal -- Politics -- Violence -- Gender -- Children -- Arts -- Donald E. Brown's list of human universals PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine -- PART II. Fear and loathing -- PART III. Human nature with a human face -- PART IV. Know thyself -- PART V. Hot buttons -- PART VI. Voice of the species -- Appendix:
0670031518 (alk. paper)
2002022719
20030044367
Nature and nurture.
Hr��?�d��?�it ��?�et milieu.
BF341 / .P47 2002
The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature / Steven Pinker. - New York : Viking, 2002. - xvi, 509 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-489) and index.
Official theory -- Silly putty -- Last wall to fall -- Culture vultures -- Slate's last stand -- Political scientists -- Holy trinity -- Fear of inequality -- Fear of imperfectibility -- Fear of determinism -- Fear of nihilism -- In touch with reality -- Out of our depths -- Many roots of our suffering -- Sanctimonious animal -- Politics -- Violence -- Gender -- Children -- Arts -- Donald E. Brown's list of human universals PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine -- PART II. Fear and loathing -- PART III. Human nature with a human face -- PART IV. Know thyself -- PART V. Hot buttons -- PART VI. Voice of the species -- Appendix:
0670031518 (alk. paper)
2002022719
20030044367
Nature and nurture.
Hr��?�d��?�it ��?�et milieu.
BF341 / .P47 2002