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British columnist and satirist Wheen presents an exhaustive but ultimately exhausting full-frontal assault on the past 25 years of ?Counter-Enlightenment idiocy.? His fencing dummies include Margaret Thatcher, Reaganomics, the Iranian Revolution, the Christian Coalition, Deepak Chopra, post-modernism, Francis Fukuyama, creationism, conspiracy theorists, people who believe in UFOs, astrology, the military-industrial complex, Cherie Blair and Hillary Clinton’s fondness for New Age philosophy, Noam Chomsky, Enron, suicide bombers and much, much more. Wheen skewers his targets with the kind of rapier-like wit the world has come to expect and enjoy from British masters of the vituperative arts. But there’s an awful lot of bloodletting here, and much of it is directed at bestselling authors, whose sales numbers Wheen bitterly notes as a way to quantitatively measure the reading public’s stupidity. Worse, he burdens his book, which is best read as a series of essays, with a to-hell-in-a-handbasket hypothesis that the level of attack on Enlightenment rationality has increased dramatically in recent years, going so far as to assign a date to the inflection point: 1979, when Thatcher and the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power. Some readers may bristle at Wheen’s idea that right-wing economic policy is inextricably tied to anti-rational, religious fundamentalism, and the author’s increasingly stretched attempts to prove this relationship begin to slip into the same realm of conspiracy theorizing he mocks in others. As an exercise in knocking down sacred cows left, right and center, this book proves that at the end of the satirical road lies nihilism.
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出版社: Public Affairs (2004/06)
言語 英語, 英語, 英語
ISBN-10: 1586482475
ISBN-13: 978-1586482473
発売日: 2004/06
商品の寸法: 21.2 x 14.2 x 3.4 cm
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