Nonzero : The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright (2000)

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9780679442523
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679442529
ISBN-13
9780679442523
eBay Product ID (ePID)
185937

Product Key Features

Book Title
Nonzero : the Logic of Human Destiny
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Sociology / General, General
Genre
Social Science, Science, History
Author
Robert Wright
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Trade
LCCN
99-040859
Dewey Edition
21
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Advance Praise forNonzero "I recommendNonzeroto any and all readers as a marvelous summary and interpretation of what is now known and surmised about biological and human history on our planet. For an author so well informed scientifically, perhaps the book's most unusual feature is the fact that Wright does not flinch from closing with a chatty, informal yet incisive argument about cosmic meaning and purpose behind the story he unfolds. . . . I greatly admire the book. [Wright] knows so much and has thought so clearly; and allows his imagination to range so freely!" -- William H. McNeill, professor emeritus of history, University of Chicago, and author ofThe Rise of the West "This is the book to read to start off the millennium. Leaping from mountaintop to mountaintop, this integrative and inspiring volume is brimming with hope for a positive human future. Religions are made of such stuff." -- Martin Seligman, professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and author ofLearned Optimism "Wright's chapters on the evolution of biological complexity and intelligence -- in addition to being beautifully written and scientifically sound -- are a welcome corrective to current trendy views that understate natural selection's creative power. There is, indeed, as Darwin said, a grandeur in this view of life."   -- James Gould, professor of biology, Princeton University, and author ofBiological Science Praise forThe Moral Animal "A fiercely intelligent, beautifully written, and engrossingly original book. Wright writes with a consistent, irreverent wit that does not hide a heartfelt seriousness of purpose." --New York Times Book Review "This clever and stimulating book is destined to become a classic. . . . Like Charles Darwin'sOn the Origin of Speciesand Richard Dawkins'sThe Selfish Gene, it could well change the way people think and feel about their lives -- perhaps even how they behave. . . . An intellectual entertainment argued with wit and style." --The Economist
Dewey Decimal
303.4
Synopsis
At the beginning ofNonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded - and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games - Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today's interdependent global society was "in the cards" - not quite inevitable, perhaps, but, as Wright puts it, "so probable as to inspire wonder." So probable, indeed, as to invite speculation about higher purpose, especially in light of "the phase of history that seems to lie immediately ahead: a social, political, and even moral culmination of sorts." In a work of vast erudition and pungent wit, Wright takes on some of the past century's most prominent thinkers, including Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins. He finds evidence for his position in unexpected corners, from native American hunter-gatherer societies and Polynesian chiefdoms to medieval Islamic commerce and precocious Chinese technology; from conflicts of interest among a cell's genes to discord at the World Trade Organization. Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future.Nonzerowill change the way people think about the human prospect.
LC Classification Number
GN360.W75 2000

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