A vital defence of the Enlightenment as a democratic force against state and corporation
Dan Hind was a publisher for ten years. in 2009 he left the industry to develop a program of media reform centered on public commissioning. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New Scientist, Lobster and the Times Literary Supplement. His books include The Threat to Reason and The Return of the Public. He lives in London.
A profound and much-needed contribution ... In the spirit of
Enlightenment thinkers, he both reveals the contradictions and
hypocrises of contemporary politics, and also points a way
forward.
*Joel Bakan*
Since September 11 2001, the idea of Enlightenment has been ripped
from university textbooks and airlifted into battle between the
West and its irrational enemies. In this elegant polemical essay,
Dan Hind rightly quibbles with this supposedly Manichean tussle
between the guarantors of Enlightenment in the West and everyone
else. Hind wants to rescue the idea of Enlightenment from its
usurpers, while pressing it into the service of something
better.
*James Harkin*
Fine, lucid and sharp ... well written and worth reading before the
next wave of western tanks crosses a border, somewhere in the
Middle East.
*Roy Liddle*
In this thoughtful polemic Dan Hind argues that we are being misled
by a debased 'Folk Enlightenment' which has little in common with
the Enlightenment initiated by Bacon and championed by Voltaire,
Hume and Kant.
*Financial Times*
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