{"product_id":"the-myth-of-the-enlightenment-essays-hardcover","title":"The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays - Hardcover","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\u003eFrederick Glaysher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2024 revised edition, with two new essays, one on the performing art of the ancient Greek rhapsodes, the other on John Ellis' \u003cem\u003eThe Breakdown of Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. These essays and reviews were all written during the 21st Century, with many of them written during Frederick Glaysher's evolving intellectual and spiritual struggle to write his epic poem, The Parliament of Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays open up Glaysher's own biography and his life-long interest in the writings of Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, John Milton, Saul Bellow, Robert Hayden, and other poets and writers, offering a fresh, new vision of literature and culture. In terms of his engagement with the writings of such philosophers and social thinkers as Plato, Giambattista Vico, Ibn Khaldun, Julien Benda, Pitirim Sorokin, Arnold Toynbee, and Jacques Barzun, Glaysher probes into the dilemmas of the Enlightenment and modernity, as he articulates a vision for the 21st Century beyond postmodernism, favoring neither East nor West, but truly global and universal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a number of reviews, Glaysher explores democracy in China, the United Nations, and what literature has too often become under the cultural tyranny of the radicalized American English department.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the final section, Race in America, Glaysher engages with his experience of growing up in Metropolitan Detroit and the dynamics of black and white race relations, suggesting, for the 21st Century, a wider conception of who we Americans are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative, calling to account endemic complacencies, The Myth of the Enlightenment reassesses our underlying cultural assumptions, looking forward with hope toward a deeper understanding of Democratic pluralism and universality, for our nation and the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Preface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over three-hundred years, civilization has been under the sway of the Myth of the Enlightenment. While the Enlightenment initiated a highly beneficial movement away from autocratic government and religion, a stifling reliance on past authorities, accompanied by an ever-increasing scientific and practical development, very early on stress and cracks began to be felt in the structure of the psyche and society. The twentieth century witnessed those cracks transmogrifying into crevasses of gaping and violent proportions, often circling the globe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last few decades have borne all the more testimony that the Myth of the Enlightenment has become part of the problem and no longer sufficiently comprises what is needed to resolve and heal what civilization is suffering from. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In an era in which the value of human life has become as precarious and narrow as the study of the humanities itself, we need Glaysher's voice more than ever.\" -\u003cstrong\u003ePhillip M. Richards, Department of English\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e Colgate University\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 230\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53125756780851,"sku":"9780982677834","price":50.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/llC2nefvXQ9780982677834.webp?v=1773260194","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-myth-of-the-enlightenment-essays-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}