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A Light Too Bright: The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations for Human Civilization(SUNY series in Religious Studies)

A Light Too Bright: The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations for Human Civilization(SUNY series in Religious Studies)


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Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dominated the external world. He shows that both Capitalism and Marxism, as well as Modern Science and Technology are creations of the same spirit, he argues. The powerful light of Critical Rationality emitted by the European Enlightenment is like the light of the sun. It is bright and helpful for seeing this world in detail, but too bright to let us see the night sky and the vast expanses of the universe. This "light too bright" eclipses the Transcendent. Dr. Gregorios invites us to appropriate the other Enlightenment of the overall-religious-cultural outlook in a new way and to relate it to the valid insights of the European Enlightenment.

Table of Contents:
Preface 1. Getting Oriented 2. Religion, Culture, and the Secular: Concepts to be Clarified 3. What is the European Enlightenment? 4. Europe: Adventure and Expansion 5. Ideas: Hegel 6. The Dialectics of the Enlightenment: Knowledge--Its Function and Foundation 7. Theory for Practice, Or the Other Way Around? 8. Justice, Human Rights, and the State in European Civilization 9. Science, Technology, and the Enlightenment: Will They Go On Reinforcing Each Other Indefinitely? 10. Reason's Unreason: Ten Questionable Assumptions of Enlightenment Rationality 11. Turning to the Other Enlightenment: The European Tradition Revisited 12. The Twain Shall Be One: On Bringing the Two Enlightenments in Integral-Dialectical Relation to Each Other Notes Index

About the Author :
Paulos Mar Gregorios, currently the Eastern Orthodox Bishop of Delhi, served as President of the World Council of Churches from 1983-1991. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Enlightenment East and West; The Joy of Freedom; The Freedom of Man; and Science for Sane Societies.

Review :
"The author has a special talent for bringing together vast amounts of material and summarizing in clear and insightful ways. This critique of the European Enlightenment is most significant in itself. While there have been other books on the Enlightenment, the approach taken here is unique and could only have been offered by a non-European." - Harold G. Coward, University of Calgar


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791411339
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 270
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Religious Studies
  • Sub Title: The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations for Human Civilization
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791411338
  • Publisher Date: 17 Aug 1992
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 544 gr


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