The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature / Steven Pinker.
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TextPublication details: New York : Penguin, 2003.Description: xvi, 509 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0142003344 (pbk.)
- 9780142003343 (pbk.)
- 014027605X (pbk.)
- 9780140276053 (pbk.)
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- BF341 .P47 2003
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Originally published: New York : Viking Penguin ; London : Allen Lane, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-489) and index.
pt. 1. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine. The official theory -- Silly putty -- The last wall to fall -- Culture vultures -- The slate's last stand -- pt. 2. Fear and loathing. Political scientists -- The holy trinity -- pt. 3. Human nature with a human face. The fear of inequality -- The fear of imperfectibility -- The fear of determinism -- The fear of nihilism -- pt. 4. Know thyself. In touch with reality -- Out of our depths -- The many roots of our suffering -- The sanctimonious animal -- pt. 5. Hot buttons. Politics -- Violence -- Gender -- Children -- The arts -- pt. 6. The voice of the species -- Appendix: Donald E. Brown's list of human universals.
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