The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - Brossura

Pinker, Steven

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ISBN 10: 0142003344 ISBN 13: 9780142003343

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003

Riassunto

In a provocative study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world's foremost experts on language and the mind brilliantly explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"An extremely good book-clear, well argued, fair, learned, tough, witty, humane, stimulating." (The Washington Post)

 "Pinker makes his main argument persuasively and with great verve...ought to be read by anybody who feels they hav had enough of the nature-nurture rows." (The Economist)

"Stylish...what a superb thinker and writer he is." (Richard Dawkins, TLS)

"Required reading...an unanswerable case for accepting that man can be, as he is, both wired and free." (Frederick Raphael, Los Angeles Times)

L'autore:

Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature,  is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142003344
• ISBN 13: 9780142003343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560