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Voltaires Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

By Saul , John Ralston

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books;Free Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0679748199, 9781476718934, 1476718938
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3538320 bytes)
Pages
915 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
CivilizationWestern;Rationalism;Reason;Electronic books

Description

Dedication; Epigraph; Twenty Years On; Part I: Argument; Chapter 1: In Which the Narrator Positions Himself; Chapter 2: The Theology of Power; Chapter 3: The Rise of Reason; Chapter 4: The Rational Courtesan; Chapter 5: Voltaire's Children; Chapter 6: The Flowering of Armaments; Part II: Scenes From a System that Doesn't Work; Chapter 7: The Question of Killing; Chapter 8: Learning How to Organize Death; Chapter 9: Persistent Continuity at the Heart of Power; Chapter 10: In the Service of the Greater Self; Chapter 11: Three Short Excursions into the Unreasonable.

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