“In this cogently argued work Richard Lerner scrutinizes
deterministic views of human nature and documents the pernicious
uses to which they have too often been put. He also presents the
scientific rationale for a more flexible view of human
potential.”—Howard Gardner,Harvard University
“Professor Lerner tells a story we need to know and presents a
perspective we need to consider.”—Jerry Hirsch,University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Final Solutions is a book about the extreme horrors that arise
when people take seriously the proposition that there are racial
and national characters from which we cannot escape. Unlike other
books on Nazi race theory, Final Solutions extends ideas of
determinism beyond the purely biological into the cultural as well.
Cultural determinism—the doctrine that our cultural heritage passed
down by a process of unconscious acculturation is
inescapable—differs only in a trivial mechanical detail from
biological determinism, the doctrine that we cannot escape our
genes. Both biological and cultural determinism deny essential
freedom to human consciousness.”—R.C. Lewontin,from the Foreword
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