Book : The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Pinker, Stephen

-Titulo Original : The Better Angels Of Our Nature

-Fabricante :

Penguin

-Descripcion Original:

This title is shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize 2012. This acclaimed steven pinker, author of the language instinct and the blank slate, argues that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? the images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. Extraordinarily, however, steven pinker shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare - really has declined from prehistory to today.we are much less likely to die at someone elses hands than ever before. Even the horrific carnage of the last century, when compared to the dangers of pre - state societies, is part of this trend. Debunking both the idea of the noble savage and an over - simplistic hobbesian notion of a nasty, brutish and short life, steven pinker argues that modernity and its cultural institutions are actually makin