Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West Saul John Ralston Paperback
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West Saul John Ralston Paperback With a new Introduction by the author, this "erudite and brilliantly readable book" (The Observer, London)…
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West Saul John Ralston Paperback
With a new Introduction by the author, this "erudite and brilliantly readable book" (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise.With a new introduction by the author, this "erudite and brilliantly readable book" (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise.The Western world is full of paradoxes. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we've never been under more pressure to conform.
We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in
The Destruction of Reason