The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence
Editat de Philip Dwyer, Mark Micaleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 sep 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350140592
ISBN-10: 1350140597
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 8 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350140597
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 8 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Includes innovative chapters from leading historians of the history of violence such as Susan Morrisey, Caroline Elkins and Philip Dwyer
Notă biografică
Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon. Mark Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Beyond the Unconscious; Discovering the History of Psychiatry; Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930; The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940; and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness, and Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming).
Cuprins
Preface List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Steven Pinker and the Nature of Violence in History Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale Part One: Interpretations 2. The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our NatureDan Smail 3. The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Writing the History of Violence Dag Lindström 4. Progress and Its Contradictions: Human Rights, Inequality, and ViolenceEric D. Weitz 5. Pinker's Technocratic Neoliberalism, and Why It MattersDavid Bell 6. Steven Pinker, Norbert Elias and the Civilizing ProcessPhilip Dwyer and Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen Part Two: Periods 7. Steven Pinker's 'Prehistoric Anarchy': A Bioarchaeological Critique Linda Fibiger 8. Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker: Violence and Medieval EnglandSara M. Butler 9. History, Violence and the EnlightenmentPhilip Dwyer Part Three: Places 10. The Complexity of History: Russia and Steven Pinker's ThesisNancy Kollmann 11. Necrology of Angels: Violence in Japanese History as a Lens of CritiqueMichael Wert 12. British Imperial Violence and the Middle EastCaroline Elkins Part Four: Themes 13. A History of Violence and Indigeneity: Pinker and the Native Americas Matthew Restall 14. The Rise and Rise of Sexual ViolenceJoanna Bourke 15. Where Angels Fear to Tread: Racialized Policing, Mass Incarceration, and Executions as State Violence in the Post-Civil Rights Era Robert T. Chase 16. The Better Angels of Which Nature? Violence and Environmental History in the Modern WorldCorey Ross 17. On Cool Reason and Hot-Blooded Impulses? Violence and the History of EmotionSusan K. Morrissey Part Five: Coda 18. Pinker and Contemporary Historical Consciousness Mark Micale Bibliography Index
Recenzii
[A]n intriguing and ambitious collection of essays ... by seventeen distinguished academics, who in various individual ways dissect the finer points of the Pinker narratives ... What this structure and breath of analysis deliver is a comprehensive and frequently penetrating criticism of the Pinker phenomenon on a multitude of levels and historical specifics.
Darker Angels is not just an efficient and revealing demolition of Pinker's scholarship and argument, but a valuable contribution in itself to a debate about violence in history, and what we can do about it.
This bracing and comprehensive set of essays on Steven Pinker's influential case for the decline of violence is definitive in its arguments, while also controlled and justified in its exasperation. The implacable engagement demands a rethinking of the relationship between history and social science.
In this calm refuge from the unwarranted claims and relentless optimism of Steven Pinker's recent books, Dwyer, Micale and their thoughtful colleagues offer new and wide-ranging ways to think about violence, history, and the civilizations that we humans have created and destroyed-a refreshing antidote to wishful thinking.
The historians in this constellation of essays come at Pinker's controversial thesis with both hammer and tongs and a fine-tooth comb. With passion and care, they require fans and critics alike to consider the historical conditions that undergird arguments about the psychology of violence. It's a book that even Pinker will have to reckon with.
This volume enlists some of the best historians and historically-oriented social scientists working today to accomplish two urgent tasks. Collectively, they dismantle Steven Pinker's popular and misleading thesis that we humans are living in an ever more peaceful world. They also open up vital questions about what counts as violence and how violence itself has changed over time.
This collection of essays restores common sense and a critical perspective to the discussion of the place of violence in our collective history. The important historical question as to the meaning of violence over time and space is a subject too important to be swept up in a paean of praise to ourselves. Dwyer and Micale are to be thanked for gathering together a set of incisive and original essays enabling us to go beyond Pinker's work in the effort to do justice to the history of violence in our time.
Steven Pinker's pseudo-historical writings promote the worship of teleology and the naive acceptance of modern (Western) man's solipsistic claims to superiority over all "dark" Others, past and present. In this tenacious periodizing schema, "we" have rejected "the medieval" for an "enlightened" world of endless progress. These contributions by Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale, and their colleagues take well-aimed blows at the foundations of white privilege and patriarchy that undergird such ahistorical theories.
The brilliant and considered contributions to Darker Angels add up to a devasting indictment from which the 'Pinker thesis' will never recover. Demonstrating the shallow scholarship that informs so many of Pinker's empirical judgments, this book also shatters his Panglossian ideology that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."
Darker Angels is not just an efficient and revealing demolition of Pinker's scholarship and argument, but a valuable contribution in itself to a debate about violence in history, and what we can do about it.
This bracing and comprehensive set of essays on Steven Pinker's influential case for the decline of violence is definitive in its arguments, while also controlled and justified in its exasperation. The implacable engagement demands a rethinking of the relationship between history and social science.
In this calm refuge from the unwarranted claims and relentless optimism of Steven Pinker's recent books, Dwyer, Micale and their thoughtful colleagues offer new and wide-ranging ways to think about violence, history, and the civilizations that we humans have created and destroyed-a refreshing antidote to wishful thinking.
The historians in this constellation of essays come at Pinker's controversial thesis with both hammer and tongs and a fine-tooth comb. With passion and care, they require fans and critics alike to consider the historical conditions that undergird arguments about the psychology of violence. It's a book that even Pinker will have to reckon with.
This volume enlists some of the best historians and historically-oriented social scientists working today to accomplish two urgent tasks. Collectively, they dismantle Steven Pinker's popular and misleading thesis that we humans are living in an ever more peaceful world. They also open up vital questions about what counts as violence and how violence itself has changed over time.
This collection of essays restores common sense and a critical perspective to the discussion of the place of violence in our collective history. The important historical question as to the meaning of violence over time and space is a subject too important to be swept up in a paean of praise to ourselves. Dwyer and Micale are to be thanked for gathering together a set of incisive and original essays enabling us to go beyond Pinker's work in the effort to do justice to the history of violence in our time.
Steven Pinker's pseudo-historical writings promote the worship of teleology and the naive acceptance of modern (Western) man's solipsistic claims to superiority over all "dark" Others, past and present. In this tenacious periodizing schema, "we" have rejected "the medieval" for an "enlightened" world of endless progress. These contributions by Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale, and their colleagues take well-aimed blows at the foundations of white privilege and patriarchy that undergird such ahistorical theories.
The brilliant and considered contributions to Darker Angels add up to a devasting indictment from which the 'Pinker thesis' will never recover. Demonstrating the shallow scholarship that informs so many of Pinker's empirical judgments, this book also shatters his Panglossian ideology that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."