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Voltaire's bastards
the dictatorship of reason in the West
By Saul, John S.
- ISBN
- 978-0-02927-725-6
- Publisher
- New York : Free Press : c1992.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 1992
Saul locates the source of many of the contemporary world's problems in a perversion of reason. He argues that while Voltaire had hoped to use reason as a tool to overthrow outmoded and harsh customs, his successors instead employed reason as an instrument of social control. The will of the people was unimportant to such acolytes of reas...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
