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

See or hear the brilliant Steven Pinker explain his masterpiece, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, as he presents his Long Now Foundation SALT talk in San Francisco. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker did not write his grand book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined with the purpose of bringing aid to sufferers from ethical skepticism. At least, not if you're interested in decreasing human violence (592). The Better Angels of our Nature, Stephen Pinker. But judging by Pinker's latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, he's also not a cynical pessimist. Pinker has a new book coming out in October, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, and I've been given an advanced copy of it to review. That's the arresting claim made by Harvard University cognitive neuroscientist Steven Pinker in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Steven Pinker has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. The Better Angels of our Nature. Stephen Pinker • Viking, 2011.