Enlightenment 2.0
restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives
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Word Count
104,250 words, Guess
Page Count
417 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveenlightenment20r0000heat
- Internet Archiveenlightenment20r0000heat_d8o8
- ISBN-101443422525
- ISBN-100062342894
- ISBN-139781443422529
and 5 more
- ISBN-139780062342898
- OCLC Control Number878365898
- OCLC Control Number861535243
- Better World Books9780062342898
- Open LibraryOL27164333M
Classifications
- DDC306.2
- DDC149.7
- LCCJA71 .H43 2014
and 3 more
- LCCB833
- LCCB833.H425 2014
- LCCB833 .H43 2014
Alternate Titles
- Enlightenment two point 0
Description
Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided-not between right and left, but between crazy and non-crazy. What's more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot prevail in the current social and media environment, where elections are won by appealing to voters' hearts rather than their minds. The rapid-fire pace of modern politics, the hypnotic repetition of daily news items and even the multitude of visual sources of information all make it difficult for the voice of reason to be heard. In Enlightenment 2.0, bestselling author Joseph Heath outlines a program for a second Enlightenment. The answer, he argues, lies in a new "slow politics." It takes as its point of departure recent psychological and philosophical research, which identifies quite clearly the social and environmental preconditions for the exercise of rational thought. It is impossible to restore sanity merely by being sane and trying to speak in a reasonable tone of voice. The only way to restore sanity is by engaging in collective action against the social conditions that have crowded it out.
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