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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

By John Ralston Saul

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
1993
ISBN
0679748199, 9780679748199
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (2678690 bytes)
Pages
656\0
Time added
2013-09-15 21:15:22

Description

Argues that the rationalist political and social experiments of the Enlightenment have degenerated into societies dominated by technology and a crude code of managerial efficiency. These are societies enslaved by manufactured fashions and artificial heroes, divorced from natural human instinct.

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