{"product_id":"the-illusion-of-light-thinking-after-the-enlightenment-paperback","title":"The Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBry Willis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment called itself an awakening. Bry Willis argues it was the longest dream in history.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this erudite yet accessible meditation, philosopher Bry Willis traces how the Enlightenment's promise of illumination became the organizing myth of modernity - the belief that light reveals, that progress redeems, that reason saves. \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Light\u003c\/i\u003e reframes that heritage as both brilliance and blindness: a radiance that made the world visible by erasing its shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on history, philosophy, and cultural critique, Willis guides readers through six \"rooms\" of reason - from objectivity and democracy to progress, agency, normality, and redemption - showing how each was built on foundations that cannot hold. What emerges is not cynicism but composure: a practice of thinking in the half-light, where clarity and humility coexist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume completes the \u003cb\u003eAnti-Enlightenment Project\u003c\/b\u003e, gathering and reinterpreting the ideas developed across Willis's earlier essays (\u003ci\u003eObjectivity Is Illusion, Rational Ghosts, Temporal Ghosts, Against Agency, The Myth of Homo Normalis, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Discipline of Dis-Integration\u003c\/i\u003e). Written for the erudite general reader, \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Light\u003c\/i\u003e invites a different kind of lucidity - one that no longer mistakes brightness for truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801710125363,"sku":"9780971086975","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YAamQLNYt9780971086975.webp?v=1785975592","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-illusion-of-light-thinking-after-the-enlightenment-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}