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The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat

a comedy of ideas

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An edition of The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat (1995)

The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat

a comedy of ideas

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  • 1 Currently reading

Professor Nicholas Caritat is a scholar of the Enlightenment and therefore, he reasons, a man with no role in the political struggle in Militaria, the autocratic state in which he lives. He is wrong. In the space of twenty-four hours, Caritat is arrested by the police, then liberated by the guerrillas of the Visible Hand. They give him the codename Pangloss and send him on a mission which only a philosopher could undertake: to find the best of all possible worlds.

The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a whirlwind journey through a series of vividly imagined political landscapes where eighteenth-century ideas confront twentieth-century concerns. Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through worlds of ideological extremes, equipped only with a small travelling bag and a knowledge of such thinkers as Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant and Hume.

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Fiction, Philosophers, Political science, Social values, Philosophy, Political scientists, Political science -- Philosophy -- Fiction., Political fiction, Scientists, fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, general
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The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat: a novel of ideas
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Cover of: The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat
The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat: a novel of ideas
2009, Verso
in English - 2nd ed., [Expanded new ed.]
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The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Comedy of Ideas
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The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat: a comedy of ideas
1995, Verso
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London, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6062.U43 C87 1995, PR6062.U43C87 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
261 p. ;
Number of pages
261

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Open Library
OL795607M
Internet Archive
curiousenlighten00luke
ISBN 10
1859849482
LCCN
95031457
OCLC/WorldCat
503432057
Library Thing
194022
Goodreads
4799390

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A philosophy professor living in a futuristic autocratic society reluctantly becomes involved in a political struggle, causing him to reassess Western political philosophies.

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