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Enemies of Hope - A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism (Paperback, 1997 ed.)
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Enemies of Hope - A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism (Paperback, 1997 ed.)
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Over the last few years, Raymond Tallis has published widely
acclaimed critiques of influential trends in contemporary thought:
for example, Not Saussure - described as 'one of the most brilliant
and effective of all rebuttals of post-Saussurean theory' - In
Defence of Realism and The Explicit Animal, which demonstrated the
baselessness of contemporary accounts of consciousness. Enemies of
Hope takes the story further, identifying the themes common to
anti-humanist twentieth-century thought and challenging the cult of
pessimism that pervades our age. Tallis teases out the many strands
of the comfortable, self-congratulatory cynicism of modernist and
postmodernist cultural critics, exposing their self-contradictions
and their wilful blindness to the distinctive mystery of human
nature. The 'pathologisers of culture' and 'the marginalisers of
consciousness' are shown to be the enemies of hope - the hope of
progress based upon the rational, conscious endeavours of
humankind. Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond
Tallis's latest debunking of Kulturkritik explores a host of
ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought,
raising questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies
of Hope, those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are
almost routine amongst humanist intellectuals may be inclined to
think twice. By clearing away the hysterical anti-humanism of the
twentieth century Enemies of Hope frees us to start thinking
constructively about the way forward for humanity in the
twenty-first.
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