About this title: 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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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679748199ISBN:0679748199
Description: Very Good; Cover has very minor scuff at corners and edges. 0679748199. 0.79 x 7.95 x 5.59 Inches; 656 pages; Cover and text are unmarked and very clean, except as noted. read more
Description: 8vo., 640pp., soft cover. Covers lightly edgeworn, pp.373-376 creased at upper corners, gift inscription at half title page, else fine. ISBN: 0679748199. read more
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0029277256. Free Press; 4th Printing; 1992; 640 p. VERY GOOD book & jacket bumped at base of spine. Crisp, unmarked interior.; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall. read more
Description: Fine. 0029277256 Like New-almost perfect. Light wear on top edge of dust jacket. Pages sharp and clean. No marks or highlighting in text. No remainder mark from publisher. Accurate Descriptions with Fast Shipping and Robust Packaging! BLU102H. read more
Description: [0-02-927725-6] [1992], 2nd printing. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 640pp. Signed with an inscription by the author. The dust jacket is price clipped. (Philosophy, Western Civilization, Rationalism, Reason) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780029277256ISBN:0029277256
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0029277256. SIGNED First American edition, first printing. Signed on inside title page at Book Expo Canada 2008 by Mr. Saul. Published by Free Press in 1992. Contains numberline 1-10. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. The book itself is in Near Fine condition with no marks or scratches. The binding is straight and tight, pages are white. No remainder mark.; Signed By Author.; Signed by Author. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Fine. Straight spine with no creases. Cover has no damage and pages show little wear. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
""It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any sort of self-deception or illusion, that the light will develop out of events by which the path to success may be recognized" (I Ching).
This books is that courage about the nature of us and our society. For anyone wanting to understand society, this is the book."
"John Ralston Saul is a highly trained and dangerous intellectual soldier and this is his frontal assault on Western culture. It is inspiring to know that there are brilliant and brave thinkers with this much energy and vision leading us on. I am so glad that I read this book."
"I really liked this book. It took me a long time to read, but it was well worth it. He discusses how the world of reason has become the world of managers who no longer are connected to reality and have perverted the reason why the enlightenment first began. He disses the world of experts who dismiss the common persons insights and experience because it does not fit into his logical frame of mind. He basically declares that divorce of reason and logic from the real world is a major source of our problems today."
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