"This is an innovative and original analysis. It does not fall easily into any one category, nor should it. This book stands alone. It is a self-contained polemic, a railing against the Enlightenment and modernism. However, because it has a broad argument, it should have a broad audience. It will be of interest to students of philosophy, sociology, politics, anthropology ... Read moreand cultural studies." - Jonathan Joseph, Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury "This is a sophisticated, acerbic analysis of Western thought. It sometimes exaggerates, but never misreads. It forces us to reassess what modernity has wrought in a powerful critique, akin in spirit to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University "A passionate invitation for us to consider the deformations and dangers of post-Enlightenment modernism and our own potential to return to a better world." - Roger Owen, Harvard University Show Less