Disenlightenment
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Disenlightenment or the Age of Disenlightenment are terms used by academics and the commentariat critiquing the achievement of the Age of Enlightenment's "promise of emancipatory rationalism",[1] and in relation to concerns as to levels of reading and literacy.[2][3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Magun, Artemy [ru] (2019). "Book Reviews: John Roberts. The Reasoning of Unreason: Universalism, Capitalism, and Disenlightenment. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018". Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. 11 (2): 174–8. doi:10.25285/2078-1938-2019-11-2-174-178.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Liddle, Rod (24 Aug 2025). "First reading dies, then knowledge, then science. It's the Disenlightenment". The Times. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ↑ "Is this the Disenlightenment?". UnHerd. 27 August 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- Mamet, David (2025). The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-063-45509-2.
- Roberts, John (2018). The Reasoning of Unreason: Universalism, Capitalism and Disenlightenment. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-01584-5.
- Barzun, Jacques (1989). The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-819-56237-1.
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