The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature / Steven Pinker.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2002.Description: xvi, 509 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0670031518 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF341 .P47 2002
Contents:
PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine -- Official theory -- Silly putty -- Last wall to fall -- Culture vultures -- Slate's last stand -- PART II. Fear and loathing -- Political scientists -- Holy trinity -- PART III. Human nature with a human face -- Fear of inequality -- Fear of imperfectibility -- Fear of determinism -- Fear of nihilism -- PART IV. Know thyself -- In touch with reality -- Out of our depths -- Many roots of our suffering -- Sanctimonious animal -- PART V. Hot buttons -- Politics -- Violence -- Gender -- Children -- Arts -- PART VI. Voice of the species -- Appendix: Donald E. Brown's list of human universals
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-489) and index.

PART I. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine -- Official theory -- Silly putty -- Last wall to fall -- Culture vultures -- Slate's last stand -- PART II. Fear and loathing -- Political scientists -- Holy trinity -- PART III. Human nature with a human face -- Fear of inequality -- Fear of imperfectibility -- Fear of determinism -- Fear of nihilism -- PART IV. Know thyself -- In touch with reality -- Out of our depths -- Many roots of our suffering -- Sanctimonious animal -- PART V. Hot buttons -- Politics -- Violence -- Gender -- Children -- Arts -- PART VI. Voice of the species -- Appendix: Donald E. Brown's list of human universals

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