Dark Diversions: A Traveler's Tale (Häftad)
avJohn Ralston Saul
ISBN: 9780143187509 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06In "Dark Diversions," acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti in the 1980s and 1990s. When he's not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul's narrator moves in privileged circ[...]
The Unconscious Civilization (Pocket)
avJohn Ralston Saul
ISBN: 9780684871080 - UTGIVEN: 199905Knowledge, The Enlightenment believed, could protect us from the follies of ideology. But Saul maintains that 'knowing' has not made us "conscious'. Instead we have become increadingly passive, our society increadingly conformist. These are no easy solutions to this problem, Saul say, but change is [...]
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Häftad)
avJohn Ralston Saul
ISBN: 9781476718965 - UTGIVEN: 201307With a new introduction by the author, this erudite and brilliantly readable book (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise.
The Western world [...]
Collapse of Globalism (Häftad)
avJohn Ralston Saul
ISBN: 9781848870413 - UTGIVEN: 2009-06Despite the almost religious certainty with which Globalization was conceived, nation states have not become extinct, international trade has not created real wealth that has spread across society and many dictatorships have not changed into democracies. This book examines where we go from here.[...]
