The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It Hind Dan
The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It Hind Dan Today, media commentators, intellectuals and politicians declare that western science and rationality are…
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The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It Hind Dan
Today, media commentators, intellectuals and politicians declare that western science and rationality are threatened by irrational enemies. The Rome that science built is under siege. Evangelicals, postmodernists, and Islamists are on the march, they say.
They aren't true.In this urgent new book, Dan Hind confronts the great machinery of deception in which we live, and which now threatens to destroy our civilization. But there's a problem with these stirring attempts to defend the truth. In particular, he takes to task a group of prominent intellectuals who have exaggerated the threat posed by the so-called forces of unreason--religion, postmodernism and other "mumbo-jumbo." The commentators, says Hind, distract us from much more pressing threats to an open democratic society based on freedom of speech and inquiry.This book shows that the real threats to reason aren't wacky or