The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker
Publisher: Viking

The Better Angels of our Nature, Stephen Pinker. I started this book 99.5% sure I'm just going to tell you what's wrong with this book and Pinker's thesis that violence has declined over time. Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,. Ed DeJesus: Book report: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why . Review of “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Steven Pinker. Straining “This book is about what may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history,” he boldly asserts, and then continues: “Violence has declined over long stretches of time, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence.”. The ideas explored in his lecture draw from Professor Pinker's most recent book The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. I first became interested in this book through a TED talk Pinker gave on the same subject. Last month I read Steven Pinker's latest book, the ambitious 700-page The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, and it instantly became one of my favorite non-fiction books I've ever read. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Stephen Pinker • Viking, 2011. If you're hopeless about the state of humanity, you may find Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined reassuring, perhaps uplifting. Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of the world's foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, psychologist Steven Pinker stakes out a boldly optimistic view of the world, at a time when his readers are no doubt processing all kinds of bad news. Currently His most recent book is The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. It is unusual for the subtitle of a book to undersell it, but Steven Pinker’s “Better Angels of Our Nature. Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. The Better Angels of our Nature.