Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction : Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire / by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats.
2018
JC11-607
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Title
Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction : Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire / by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats.
Author
Britt, Christopher, author.
ISBN
9783319707846
3319707841
3319707841
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (IX, 171 pages 3 illustrations) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-70784-6 doi
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JC11-607
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.01
Summary
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.
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Fenn, Paul, author.
Subirats, Eduardo, author.
Subirats, Eduardo, author.
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Critical political theory and radical practice.
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Table of Contents
1. Redefining Enlightenment
2. Critique of Providential Enlightenment
3. Enlightenment and Power
4. Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction.
2. Critique of Providential Enlightenment
3. Enlightenment and Power
4. Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction.