Nonzero

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Robert Wright is the author of Three Scientists and Their Gods and The Moral Animal, which was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the twelve best books of the year and has been published in nine languages. A recipient of the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism, Wright has published in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Time, and Slate. He was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and The Sciences and now runs the Web site nonzero.org. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters.

出版者:Pantheon
作者:Robert Wright
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页数:448
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出版时间:1999-12-20
价格:USD 27.50
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780679442523
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  • 进化心理学 
  • 社会学 
  • 全球化 
  • 社会 
  • 心理学 
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At the beginning of Nonzero, 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. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect.

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写得很好的一本书。与斯图尔特的演化朝更大的复杂性、智能和最终的人类全球一体化方向进展一样,以复述人类历史为基础,它详尽阐述了一个类似的主题。——弗朗西斯•海拉恩 《非零——人类命运的逻辑》(Non-Zero. The Logic of Human Destiny) (Pantheon Books, 2000)  

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赖特是要找出驱动人类历史和生物演化的力量,他找到了一个“非零和”动力。他以为,是非零和推动人类社会、生命体进化得越来越复杂和高级。那么,首先一点,这个“非零和”是什么东西?他的这个“非零和”,是取自博弈论中的一个术语。零和,就像人们打麻将赌博,有人赢就必有...  

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看有关“博弈”的书的时候,内心总是会先博弈一场,总有一个懒散安逸的“我”阻挡着前行,而最终还是一个勤奋好学的“我”战胜了懒惰,不过好像这只是一个零和博弈。而赖特在这本书的观点就是推动这个世界发展的都是非零和。这本书的结构很像《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》,还有《人类...  

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这很可能是一本被大家低估的书。虽然罗伯特莱特并没有通过一本书最终能说服我信仰他的历史的方向性(我宁愿继续相信波普尔说的历史根本无法预测),但是其对文化进化论上的实证研究非常值得一读。 作者文化进化论的核心观点是:生物进化也好,文化进化也好,都是沿着一个方向前...  

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合作推进人类结构演变和文明发展进程,并带领社会向更好的某种既定未来的进化。 很多新颖观点,值得重读。

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合作推进人类结构演变和文明发展进程,并带领社会向更好的某种既定未来的进化。 很多新颖观点,值得重读。

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合作推进人类结构演变和文明发展进程,并带领社会向更好的某种既定未来的进化。 很多新颖观点,值得重读。

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