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A passionate critique of Enlightenment—both in its contemporary invocation and its historical and cultural use—and a call to arms to rethink human equality and liberty without the sacrifice of individual rights and ethnicities.
Price: $32.00
Pages: 165
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Publication Date:
23 May 1996
ISBN: 9780231080231
Format: Paperback
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[Finkielkraut's work] is one of the final flowerings of the spirit of Diderot. It teaches again the truths that ignorance can not foster freedom, that Shakespeare is of a different order than a pair of boots, and that rock religion is suicide.
Alaine Finkielkraut is the author of The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity (Columbia).