Requiem for Modern Politics: The Tragedy of the Enlightenment and the Challenge of the New Millennium

by William Ophuls

Book Overview

This long-promised sequel to Ophuls' influential and controversial classic Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity is an equally provocative critique of the liberal philosophy of government. Ophuls contends that the modern political paradigm--that is, the body of political concepts and beliefs bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment--is no longer intellectually tenable or practically viable. Our attempt to live individualistically, hedonistically, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813331420
• ISBN13: 9780813331423
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"