Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
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Author(s)Saul, John Ralston
PublisherFree Press
ISBN / ASIN0029277256
ISBN-139780029277256
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Sales Rank835
CategoryHistory
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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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