Requiem For Modern Politics: The Tragedy Of The Enlightenment And The Challenge Of The New Millennium

This book argues that modern politics has reached the end of its tether. It contends that the modern political paradigm--that is, the body of political concepts and beliefs bequeathed to people by the Enlightenment--is no longer intellectually tenable or practically viable.

Author: William Ophuls
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/13/1998
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.17w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780813335162

About the Author
William Ophuls is a former member of the U.S. Foreign Service and has taught political science at Northwestern University. He is the author of Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, which won the International Studies Association's Sprout Prize and the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award.