The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us

New York, US: Oup Usa (2007)
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This interdisciplinary book is a contribution to the history of ideas that tries to locate and assess the causes for the large gap between Enlightenment hopes for the future and present realities.

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