The Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment called itself an awakening. Bry Willis argues it was the longest dream in history.
In this erudite yet accessible meditation, philosopher Bry Willis traces how the Enlightenment's promise of illumination became the organising myth of modernity - the belief that light reveals, that progress redeems, that reason saves. The Illusion of Light reframes that heritage as both brilliance and blindness: a radiance that made the world visible by erasing its shadows.
Drawing on history...



