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Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment
The provided text is a book announcement from a philosophical blog called Philosophics, detailing the release of The Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment. This book, authored by Bry Willis, is the first volume in the Anti-Enlightenment Essays series, which critically examines how Enlightenment ideals like progress, objectivity, and rationality have transformed into mechanisms for modern control and management. The overarching Anti-Enlightenment Project proposes a philosophical practice based on nuance, care, and "maintenance work" rather than certainty and mastery, arguing that…
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