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050 00 $aPR6062.U43$bC87 1995
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100 1 $aLukes, Steven.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039175
245 14 $aThe curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat :$ba comedy of ideas /$cby Steven Lukes.
260 $aNew York :$bVerso,$c1995.
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300 $a261 pages ;$c23 cm
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520 $aProfessor 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy$vFiction.
650 0 $aPolitical scientists$vFiction.
650 0 $aSocial values$vFiction.
650 0 $aPhilosophers$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109203
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