The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It - Softcover

"Fine, lucid and sharp...well written and worth reading before the next wave of western tanks crosses a border, somewhere in the Middle East." The Sunday Times "Hind's The Threat to Reason is in the tradition of those great works that ask big and fundamental, yet curiously unexamined, questions. It is a profound and much-needed contribution." Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation"

In exploring how the Enlightenment continues to operate as a powerful guiding principle in Western politics, "The Threat to Reason" reveals how the truly pressing threats to free inquiry reside within the allegedly enlightened institutions of state and corporation. In recovering the concept of Enlightenment from its self-appointed defenders, "The Threat to Reason" demonstrates its crucial importance to a truly democratic politics, rather than a political performance in which we remain merely spectators.