Threat to reason: how the enlightenment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it (Record no. 83723)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788189059149
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Classification number 306 HIN
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Personal name Hind,Dan
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Title Threat to reason: how the enlightenment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Navayana
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
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Extent 198p.
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Price amount 200.00
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Summary, etc. Today, media commentators, intellectuals and politicians declare that western science and rationality are threatened by irrational enemies. Evangelicals, postmodernists and Islamists are on the march, they say. The Rome that science built us is under seige. But there's a problem with these stirring attempts to defend the truth. 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 civilizaion. 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, say 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 foreign or stupid; they reside in our state and corporate bureaucracies—and, one way or another, they probably pay you your salary. In recovering the idea of Enlightenment, Hind explores its vital importance and reveals how it can help us to achieve a truly democratic politics, in which we have a genuine say in the decisions that are taken on our behalf.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Modernity
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