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_aPinker, Steven _949225 |
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| 245 | _aBlank slate : the modern denial of human nature | ||
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_bPenguin _c2003 _aNew Delhi |
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| 300 | _axvii,509p. | ||
| 505 | _aCONTENTS 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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