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.
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.
本书作者视野非常开阔,试图给出人类历史和生物进化的发展的规律。 作者综合人类学的研究,认为原始社会并非大多数人想象的一成不变,而是在向更复杂的社会结构,更好的技术的方向发展。证据来源于近代以来现代人得以近距离观察的原始社会,和考古学的发现。 作者认为人类有...
评分买这本书,其实最开始的时候是看到作者的另外一本书,神的演化。 这本书的翻译几个版本,在网上的评价都不太高。原因是书写的很细,内容很繁琐。 作者作为前总统的顾问,本书是福布斯财富杂志把它定为75本必读的商业书之一。位列全球化的子目中的一本。介绍称,该书将历史、神...
评分全球化时代信息传播的速度是惊人的。一方面,人们可以通过电视直播观看伊拉克战争中美军威力无边的新式武器,欣赏星条旗在伊拉克到处飘扬的壮举。另一方面,学术界也以极快的速度将美国思想界的最新声音传送到国内。不久前,美国著名学者法兰西斯·福山访问中国,使我们有机会...
评分写得很好的一本书。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)
评分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。
评分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。
评分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。
评分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。
评分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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