{"product_id":"the-curious-enlightenment-of-professor-caritat-isbn-9781839763977","title":"The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat","description":"\u003cb\u003eA whirlwind tour through the utopias of modernity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant fictional excursion through Western political philosophy from one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively from his native land to the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria, and Libertaria on a quest to find the best of all possible worlds. Freed from the confines of his ivory tower, this wandering intellectual is made to confront the perplexed state of modern thinking in a dazzling comedy of ideas.“Knock-out satirical humour.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is a box of delights, often wonderfully funny and always deliciously clever, a contemporary political satire to set among the best.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Steven Lukes’s moral fable is in the tradition of tall travellers’ tales from Swift and Voltaire to Lewis Carroll and Samuel Butler.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Lukes manages to equal the pace and flair of Candide.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Utterly magnetic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A delightfully edifying comedy.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A counterpart to Jonstein Gaarder’s bestseller, \u003ci\u003eSophie’s World\u003c\/i\u003e, for those who might be seeking an introduction to political theory.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Charming and refreshing.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Lukes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous books and an academic with a distinguished career. He is currently Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is on the editorial board of the \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e and a Fellow of the British Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302238245093,"sku":"NP9781839763977","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839763977.jpg?v=1767738894","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-curious-enlightenment-of-professor-caritat-isbn-9781839763977","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}