Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire /

• Main Authors: Britt, Christopher (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Fenn, Paul (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Subirats, Eduardo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
• Subjects: Political theory.; Comparative politics.; Political philosophy.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; United States-Politics and government.; Critical theory.; Political Theory.; Comparative Politics.; Political Philosophy.; British Politics.; US Politics.; Critical Theory.

This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. In a time wh...