TY  - GEN
AU  - Pinker, Steven
TI  - Blank slate : the modern denial of human nature
SN  - 9780140276053
U1  - 155.234 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Penguin
N1  - CONTENTS
PREFACE	Vti
PA RT I The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage,
and the Ghost in the Machine	                                           1
Chapter 1 The Official Theory	5
Chapter 2 Silly Putty	14
Chapter 3 The Last Wall to Fall	30
Chapter 4 Culture Vultures	59
Chapter 5 The Slate's Last Stand	73
PART II  Fear and Loathing	103
Chapter 6 Political Scientists	105
Chapter 7 The Holy Trinity	121
PART III Human Nature with a Human Face	137
Chapter 8 The Fear of Inequality	141
Chapter 9 The Fear of Imperfectibility	159
Chapter 10 The Fear of Determinism	174
Chapter 11 The Fear of Nihilism	186
PART IV Know Thyself	195
Chapter 12 In Touch with Reality	197
Chapter 13 Out of Our Depths	219
Chapter 14 The Many Roots of Our Suffering	241
Chapter 15 The Sanctimonious Animal	269
PART V Hot Buttons	281
Chapter 16 Politics	283
Chapter 17 Violence	306
Chapter 18 Gender	337
Chapter 19 Children	372
Chapter 20 The Arts	400
PART VI The Voice of the Species	421
APPENDIX: Donald E. Brown's List of Human Universals	435
NOTES	441
REFERENCES	461
INDEX	491

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