The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat
A Novel of Ideas
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:21st Jul '09
Should be back in stock very soon
A whirlwind fictional tour through the utopias of our modernity
Presents a fictional journey through Western political philosophy. This book shows how professor Caritat confronts the perplexed state of modern thinking in this comedy of ideas.The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy by one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria and Libertaria, in his quest to find the best of all possible worlds. Cut loose from the confines of his ivory tower, this wandering professor is made to confront the perplexed state of modern thinking in this dazzling comedy of ideas.
Written in a beautifully clear style, full of a keen, serious wit ... Lukes achieves both lightness and weight in a way many novelists might envy. * Independent *
This book is a box of delights, often wonderfully funny and always deliciously clever, a contemporary political satire to set among the best. * New Statesman *
Steven Lukes's moral fable is in the tradition of tall travellers' tales from Swift and Voltaire to Lewis Carroll and Samuel Butler. * London Review of Books *
Knock-out satirical humour. * Times Literary Supplement *
Lukes manages to equal the pace and flair of Candide. * New York Times Book Review *
Utterly magnetic. * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
ISBN: 9781844673698
Dimensions: 196mm x 132mm x 20mm
Weight: 296g
262 pages
2nd edition