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Blank Slate

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Blank Slate

Av Steven Pinker

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Beskrivning
'A passionate defence of the enduring power of human nature ... both life-affirming and deeply satisfying' Daily TelegraphRecently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment. But this denies the heart of our being: human nature. Violence is not just a product of society; male and female minds are different; the genes we give our children shape them more than our parenting practices. To acknowledge our innate abilities, Pinker shows, is not to condone inequality, but to understand the very foundations of humanity.'Brilliant ... enjoyable, informative, clear, humane' New Scientist'If you think the nature-nurture debate has been resolved, you are wrong ... this book is required reading' Literary Review'An original and vital contribution to science and also a rattling good read' Matt Ridley, Sunday Telegraph 'Startling ... This is a breath of air for a topic that has been politicized for too long' Economist
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2003-06-05
  • Mått: 130 x 197 x 27 mm
  • Vikt: 360 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 560
  • Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780140276053
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9 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 5/5 Steven T

    I motsats till vår engelskspråklige vän så uppskattade jag Pinkers bok oerhört. Kritiken mot boken tar ofta form av den radikale ideologens moraliserande och känslomässiga kritik snarare än kritik mot den sammanställning av vetenskapens läge vad gäller den mänskliga naturen som boken utgör. Boken slår hårt åt både höger och vänster. Har du en dogmatisk ideologisk och/eller religiös tro bör du alltså inte läsa boken, den kan allvarligt hota dina illusioner. Är du däremot öppet nyfiken på människan som företeelse och på hennes (biologiska/evolutionära) villkor ger boken en suverän översikt med gott om referenser om fördjupning önskas. Boken är dessutom skriven på ett underhållande och ibland utmanande sätt vilket är ett måste för all god litteratur.

  2. 1/5 Gunnar O

    Shakespeare is much more true to "human nature" when he lets Hamlet hold out the flute to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (as a symbol of himself or mankind) asking them to play on it. They can't of course. Noone can. But Pinker and other "scientists" think they can.
    It is very strange, in fact unbelievable, that evolution or whatever created us, has mainstream American politics as a goal. But that is what Pinker arrives at when he puts his own words in the mouth of evolution (who never talked to anyone, by the way).
    In his view of gender, male behaviour, childrearing, art etc he sounds like a crossbreed of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. And it seems he is not even aware of how utterly American his thoughts are! He sees a lot of traits and ideas that thrive only in the US as part of human nature!

  3. 5/5 Libra
  4. 4/5 Malka
  5. 4/5 Håkan O