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Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction = Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction/ by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats.
Reminder of title:	Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire /
Author:	Britt, Christopher.
other author:	Fenn, Paul.
Description:	IX, 171 p. 3 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Political theory. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70784-6
ISBN:	9783319707846

Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction = Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire /
Britt, Christopher.

Enlightenment in an Age of DestructionIntellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire /[electronic resource] :by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats. - 1st ed. 2018. - IX, 171 p. 3 illus.online resource. - Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. - Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice.

1. Redefining Enlightenment -- 2. Critique of Providential Enlightenment -- 3. Enlightenment and Power -- 4. Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction.

This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. In a time when national democracies seem an imperial farce, it is not enough for intellectuals faced with all this destruction to blithely recommend resistance. Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction challenges resistance theory, providing a cosmology of enlightenment that regards it as an unstable epiphenomenon. The authors outline the current "English" enlightenment of Pax Americana, and provides an epistemological theory and demonstration: a derivative of Adorno's negative dialectics in a positive dialectic based upon intellectual participation in civil society. The book thus ties American, British, French and German theoretical traditions into a reflexive challenge to the notion of intellectual as critic, and argues instead for a trespassive tradition of cultural leadership.

ISBN: 9783319707846

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-70784-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253540
Political theory.

LC Class. No.: JC11-607

Dewey Class. No.: 320.01

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