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The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat: A Novel Of Ideas

by Steven Lukes

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Reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels and Sophie's World in turn, this delightful satirical comedy is a whirlwind tour through the utopias of our modernity. Along the way, Lukes both pays homage to and reveals the tragic failure of each utopia in achievi... Read more
Reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels and Sophie's World in turn, this delightful satirical comedy is a whirlwind tour through the utopias of our modernity. Along the way, Lukes both pays homage to and reveals the tragic failure of each utopia in achieving the perfect world. Nicholas Caritat, a modern-day professor and scholar of the Enlightenment, takes a journey through the fictional world of western political philosophy. Conversing mentally with Voltaire and Condorcet, he seeks to avoid the political struggle in Militaria, the police state where he lives, and though he is arrested by the police, he is liberated by guerrillas who dub him Pangloss because they want him to find the best of all possible worlds. Traveling through Utilitaria, Libertaria, Communitaria, and Egalitaria, his misadventures reveal to him and us that none of them is ideal because, alone, each lacks the strengths of the others. Less

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Publication date May 27, 2014
Languageeng
ISBN9781844673698
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Steven Lukes
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Steven Lukes is a professor of sociology at New York University. He has written numerous books about political and social theory including Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work and the seminal Power: A Ra...

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