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Over the last few years, Raymond Tallis has published widely acclaimed critiques of influential trends in contemporary thought: for example, Not Saussure - described as 'one of the most brilliant and effective of all rebuttals of post-Saussurean theory' - In Defence of Realism and The Explicit Animal, which demonstrated the baselessness of contemporary accounts of consciousness.
Enemies of Hope takes the story further, identifying the themes common to anti-humanist twentieth-century thought and challenging the cult of pessimism that pervades our age. Tallis teases out the many strands of the comfortable, self-congratulatory cynicism of modernist and postmodernist cultural critics, exposing their self-contradictions and their wilful blindness to the distinctive mystery of human nature. The 'pathologisers of culture' and 'the marginalisers of consciousness' are shown to be the enemies of hope - the hope of progress based upon the rational, conscious endeavours of humankind.
Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond Tallis's latest debunking of Kulturkritik explores a host of ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought, raising questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies of Hope, those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are almost routine amongst humanist intellectuals may be inclined to think twice. By clearing away the hysterical anti-humanism of the twentieth century Enemies of Hope frees us to start thinking constructively about the way forward for humanity in the twenty-first.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prologue Isaiah Berlin’s ‘Yes-But to the Enlightenment’
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Pathologising Culture
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Marginalising Consciousness
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enemies of Hope
Book Subtitle: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism
Authors: Raymond Tallis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61608-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-17326-5Published: 12 June 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22417-2Published: 12 June 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-61608-4Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 499
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Modern Philosophy, Intellectual Studies, History of Philosophy, Psychology, general