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The Defeat of the Mind (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

The Defeat of the Mind (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

by Alain Finkielkraut (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

    $41.20
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 188
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 15 Jul 1995
ISBN 10: 0231080239
ISBN 13: 9780231080231

Media Reviews
[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. Harold Bloom
Author Bio
Alaine Finkielkraut is the author of The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity (Columbia).