Further Research John Gray on the decline of violence March 15, 2015 jyamamo 2 Comments John Gray argues in The Guardian that Pinker’s got his sums all wrong and there has been no decline in violence. Share on FacebookTweetFollow us
The debate on the decline of violence is starting to heat up. Here’s John Gray on why Pinker’s got it wrong: http://t.co/jIvWKZ27Pr Reply
Gray is basically reiterating his response from when Pinker’s book came out in 2011: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/john-gray-steven-pinker-violence-review Timothy Snyder takes much the same view: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136957/timothy-snyder/war-no-more But the most hostile review of all is that of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, who dismiss Pinker’s thesis as “Reality Denial” and “Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence”: http://www.globalresearch.ca/reality-denial-apologetics-for-western-imperial-violence/32066 Reply
The debate on the decline of violence is starting to heat up. Here’s John Gray on why Pinker’s got it wrong: http://t.co/jIvWKZ27Pr
Gray is basically reiterating his response from when Pinker’s book came out in 2011:
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/john-gray-steven-pinker-violence-review
Timothy Snyder takes much the same view:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136957/timothy-snyder/war-no-more
But the most hostile review of all is that of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, who dismiss Pinker’s thesis as “Reality Denial” and “Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence”:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/reality-denial-apologetics-for-western-imperial-violence/32066