What's his best book?

[Anonymous No.12960478]

Enlightenment Now?
What did you think of it?

[Anonymous No.12960487]

[Anonymous No.12960488]

>>12960478
Ass

[Anonymous No.12960490]

>>12960478
And how about not banning the OP a day later just because someone shits up the thread.
This is literature discussion. Calm your dilation.

[Anonymous No.12960675]

>>12960478
The Language Instinct was legitimately good, and while I don't hate Pinker I think he's a pretty blatant shill at this point.

His non-linguistic books are liberal hopium, basically climate-change denialist in their failure to grasp scope, and poorly sourced trash desu.

Pinker: "Hey world bank, hey IMF, has global capitalism been good or bad for the poor?"

World Bank and IMF, choking on Armand de Brignac and caviar while getting their dicks sucked by the child prostitutes they bought from various colonized countries: "Of course it's been good for the poor! Look at these happy little workers! *stuffs $1.90 in a toddler's g-string* Look at that! We just reduced the number of children in poverty again. All in a day's work, Steven!"

Pinker then smiles as he writes the citation he'll use multiple times in his soon-to-be best seller from his tenured position at Harvard, disregarding of the fact that his shitty sourcing from obviously biased sources has been called out since that shit book he put out in 2011 about violence - doesn't matter though, he knows his personal friend Bill Gates will buy 10 million copies and give them out everywhere he goes, and that he'll be invited on all the talk-shows again to give everybody the good news.

Honestly, he's a smart man, both in terms of linguistic theory and in terms of gaining social points (and a ton of money) from aristocrats, techno optimists, and basically anyone who doesn't have the stomach to examine reality for what it is. He's a positivity pimp, and people seem to love that.

[Anonymous No.12960739]

>>12960675
>The Language Instinct was legitimately good
LOL!! YOU MAKE ME ZPIT OUT SPAGHETTI. THIS OUGHT A BE MOST FUNNY STATEMENT I HAVE READ ALL DECADE! LMAO WOW. OH MY... WHAT THE H... GOLLY. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Seriously, though. I think The Lamguage Instinct is a trash linguistics book. But don't take my eprd for it. Ya.

[Anonymous No.12960812]

>>12960739
I had to pick one and that was the one I remember having some interesting insights (though I can't come close to claiming I've read all of Pinker's books, and I pity anyone who has). It's probably been ten years since I read it, but I remember a section on people who were not socialized with language essentially created their own sort of soft-cognitive internal-context language for navigating the physical world. Thought that was cool.

I thought the section on 'language mavens' was also interesting. If you grow up around people who are needlessly pedantic about language that section might be of interest to you. That section combined with how language recently expanded under the omnipresence of internet-text-based communication, especially on those who are young and still learning languages, is a topic worth considering.

[Anonymous No.12960857]

ass