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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge de Matt Ridley

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

Autor Matt Ridley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 oct 2015

Considerăm acest volum o referință esențială pentru nivelul de licență și master în studii culturale și istoria ideilor, oferind o perspectivă provocatoare asupra modului în care sistemele complexe se auto-organizează. În The Evolution of Everything, Matt Ridley propune o schimbare de paradigmă: trecerea de la fascinația pentru controlul centralizat la înțelegerea fenomenelor emergente. Remarcăm modul în care autorul demontează ipoteza conform căreia marile schimbări sociale și științifice sunt dictate de autorități, argumentând că progresul real — de la internet la moralitate — se dezvoltă organic, de jos în sus.

Stilul este unul incisiv și bine documentat, integrând anecdote din economie și biologie pentru a ilustra cum tiparele apar fără un arhitect central. Cititorii familiarizați cu Emergence de Steven Johnson vor aprecia modul în care Ridley extinde teoria sistemelor auto-organizate către structura guvernării și a banilor, oferind o viziune mult mai politizată și filosofică asupra conceptului de emergență. Spre deosebire de Evolution coordonat de A. C. Fabian, care oferă o perspectivă academică multidisciplinară, lucrarea lui Ridley este un manifest coerent pentru libertatea de evoluție a ideilor.

Apreciem poziționarea acestui titlu în continuarea operei autorului; dacă în The Rational Optimist acesta analiza beneficiile comerțului, iar în Nature via Nurture explora rădăcinile comportamentului uman, în volumul de față Ridley sintetizează aceste teme într-o teorie universală a schimbării. Este o lectură densă, dar accesibilă, care recalibrează înțelegerea noastră despre cauzalitate în istoria civilizației.

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ISBN-13: 9780062296009
ISBN-10: 0062296000
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper

De ce să citești această carte

Adresată studenților și profesioniștilor din științe sociale, această carte oferă un instrument critic pentru a înțelege complexitatea lumii moderne. Cititorul câștigă o nouă perspectivă asupra schimbărilor tehnologice și economice, învățând să identifice forțele invizibile care modelează societatea. Este o recomandare solidă pentru cei care doresc să depășească explicațiile simpliste bazate pe intervenția guvernamentală sau planificarea strategică în favoarea ordinii spontane.

Despre autor

Matthew White Ridley, al 5-lea Viconte Ridley, este un renumit jurnalist și om de afaceri britanic, doctor în biologie la Universitatea Oxford. Este recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru lucrările sale de popularizare a științei, economiei și evoluției, fiind autorul unor titluri de referință precum The Red Queen și Genome. Membru al Camerei Lorzilor până în 2021, Ridley îmbină rigoarea științifică cu o perspectivă libertariană asupra progresului uman. Experiența sa diversă, de la cercetare biologică la jurnalism politic și management bancar, îi conferă o voce distinctă în analiza mecanismelor care guvernează evoluția ideilor și a prosperității.

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.
The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt Ridley’s wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia, or morality. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. Patterns emerge, trends evolve. Just as skeins of geese form Vs in the sky without meaning to, and termites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains take shape without brain-makers, learning can happen without teaching and morality changes without a plan.
Although we neglect, defy and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world. The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm yields so that more land can be released for nature—these were largely emergent phenomena, as were the Internet, the mobile phone revolution, and the rise of Asia. Ridley demolishes the arguments for design and effectively makes the case for evolution in the universe, morality, genes, the economy, culture, technology, the mind, personality, population, education, history, government, God, money, and the future.
As compelling as it is controversial, authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley’s stunning perspective will revolutionize the way we think about our world and how it works.

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.
Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next; it creeps rather than jumps; it has its own spontaneous momentum rather than being driven from outside; it has no goal or end in mind; and it largely happens by trial and error—a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of human action but not of human design: it emerges from the interactions of millions, not from the plans of a few.
Drawing on fascinating evidence from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events and trends of our day are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia, or organized religion. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. Just as skeins of geese form Vs in the sky without meaning to and ter-mites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains take shape without brain-makers, learning happens without teaching, and morality changes for no reason other than the prevailing fashion. Although we neglect, defy, and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world. The Industrial Revolution, cell phones, the rise of Asia, and the Internet were never planned; they happened. Languages emerged and evolved by a form of natural selection, as did common law. Torture, racism, slavery, and pedophilia—all once widely regarded as acceptable—are now seen as immoral despite the decline of religion in recent decades. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution, rather than design, as the force that has shaped much of our culture, our technology, our minds, and that even now is shaping our future.
As compelling as it is controversial, as authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley’s deeply thought-provoking book will change the way we think about the world and how it works.

Recenzii

“A highly intelligent and bracingly iconoclastic view of the world. It forces us to see life through new eyes.” — New York Times Book Review
“A compelling argument...a fascinating work...The way the book frames the argument is delightfully novel...Ridley has amassed such a weight of fascinating evidence and anecdote that the pages fly by.” — The Times (Saturday Review)
“Ridley shows how hard it has been for even the most definite evolutionists to fully abandon the notion of a guiding intelligence…Yet that is what the hard evidence…that Ridley adduces in every chapter compels us all to do.” — Booklist (starred review)
“This penetrating book is Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian-even anti-elitist-in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” — Wall Street Journal
“An exceptional book: exceptionally easy to read, easy to understand, easy to appreciate…Of the many good general texts on the subject, THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING emerges as the fittest to champion the case for the ubiquity of evolution.” — Washington Times
“Ridley is a provocative, occasionally pugnacious writer and his book is intriguing and artfully argued.” — London Sunday Times
“Highly readable, invariably interesting…Ridley’s laudable aim is to disenthrall us of our intuitive creationism and make us see evolution at work everywhere…Ridley succeeds in spades…He possesses the rare power to see the world in a different light - one made not by great men or women but by undirected, incremental change.” — New Scientist
“An ingenious study…fascinating…thought-provoking…difficult to put down.” — Kirkus, starred review
“Impressive…Readers of evolutionary theory, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy shall be highly entertained by this thought-provoking read.” — Library Journal
“Building on the timeless insights of Lucretius, Ridley examines how civilization inexorably organizes itself. Wrong-headed social theories, he and Lucretius agree, just get in the way.” — Stewart Brand, Author, Whole Earth Discipline

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'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.'