DO HUMANKIND''S BEST DAYS LIE AHEAD?

• Date de parution : 03/11/2016
• Editeur : Oneworld
• EAN : 9781786070760
• Série : (-)
• Support : Poche

• Nombre de pages : 128
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Histoire
• Thème : Histoire (format Poche)
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.'

-Steven Pinker

'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have... Voir plus

'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.'

-Steven Pinker

'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.'

-Malcolm Gladwell

In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the world's most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era...