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100			_aHind,Dan
245		0	_aThreat to reason: how the enlightenment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bNavayana
260			_c2008
300			_a198p.
365			_b 200.00
365			_dRS
520			_aToday, 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.
650			_aModernity
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