The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat
a comedy of ideas
by Steven Lukes
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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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The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat: a novel of ideas
2009, Verso
in English
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The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat: a novel of ideas
2009, Verso
in English
- 2nd ed., [Expanded new ed.]
1844673693 9781844673698
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The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Comedy of Ideas
November 1996, Verso
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The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat: a comedy of ideas
1995, Verso
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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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