Voltaire's Bastards The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Name: Voltaire's Bastards The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
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ISBN: 9780029277256

ISBN-10: 0029277256

ISBN-13: 9780029277256

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Ralston Saul

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John Ralston Saul poses in 'Voltaire's Bastards, ' a phosphorescently intelligent search- and -destroy mission against the foundations of contemporary civilization. The result is a learned and devastating critique of our political, economic and cultural establishments.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/14/1992
Binding: Children's Board Books
Pages: 450
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Argument


In which the Narrator Positions Himself


The Theology of Power


The Rise of Reason


The Rational Courtesan


Voltaire's Children


The Flowering of Armaments


Scenes from a System That Doesn't Work


The Question of Killing


Learning How to Organize Death


Persistent Continuity at the Heart of Power


In the Service of the Greater Self


Three Short Excursions into the Unreasonable


The Art of the Secret


The Secretive Knight


Of Princes and Heroes


The Hero and the Politics of Immortality


The Hijacking of Capitalism


The Miracle of the Loaves


Surviving in Fantasy Land: The Individual in the World of Reason


Images of Immortality or The Victory of Idolatry


Life in a Box - Specialization and the Individual


The Stars


The Faithful Witness


The Virtue of Doubt


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index