Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024): Warfare and Peacemaking Among Matricultures
Book Reviews

Review of The Darker Angels of Our Nature

  • Marie-Françoise Guédon
Marie-Françoise Guédon
University of Ottawa
Cover of The Darker Angels of Our Nature, featuring a sculpted wingèd angel looking down and a red title.

Published 2024-05-09

Keywords

  • book review,
  • violence,
  • history of violence,
  • Steven Pinker

Copyright (c) 2024 Marie-Françoise Guédon (Author)

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How to Cite

Review of The Darker Angels of Our Nature. (2024). Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies, 3(2), 139-173. https://doi.org/10.60676/06h7zj42

Abstract

Marie-Françoise Guédon offers a detailed review of The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker theory of history and violence. Edited by Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, the volume presents seventeen evaluations of Pinker's theory and find it lacking.

References

  1. Dwyer, Philip, and Mark Micale, eds., The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).
  2. Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence inHistory and Its Causes (London: Allen Lane, 2011).