Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
John Ralston Saul, "Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West"
ISBN: 0679748199 | 1993 | EPUB/MOBI | 656 pages | 3 MB/3 MB
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.