"Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows t…
The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason…
Alternative modernities
by Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Niranjana, Tejaswini, Gaonkar, Dilip, Wachtel, Andrew Baruch
fromPublic culture
"The Shape of the New tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of t…
Résumé de "Le Discours Philosophique De La Modernite"Depuis que Hegel a voulu réconcilier la raison avec le réel (son célèbre " le réel est rationnel "), depuis que le réel a charrié, voire pour certains, s'est résumé à, les massacres de masse, les génocides et autres camps, nom…
This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of Hebrew sources, while theirJewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.
