Enlightenment Now
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Enlightenment Now
| Full title | Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress |
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| Author | Steven Pinker |
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 576 |
| Recommended | 4 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Steven Pinker’s seventy-five charts arguing that life, health, wealth, safety, literacy and happiness have improved, and that the Enlightenment values behind the improvement need defending — the standard reference for the progress case, and therefore the standard target. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco — June 2018 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble, American Fork — November 2024 (Books photo album)
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Replies to @SpencrGreenberg — named in the replies to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?”, June 2025. Full list: A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
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Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, under Science, Philosophy, Evolution, History of Human Civilization, Human History.
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Steven Pinker — the author.
- Progress · Enlightenment — the argument.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.