With debates on the meaning of "liberal society" more heated than ever, this is a timely re-issue of a classic text
Steven Lukes is Professor of Sociology at New York University. Co-editor of the European Journal of Sociology, his books include Work, Individualism, Power: A Radical View, Marxism and Morality, and The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat.
Praise for Steven Lukes′s The Curious Enlightenment of
Professor Caritat:
“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.”
—Independent
“This book is a box of delights, often wonderfully funny and always
deliciously clever, a contemporary political satire to set among
the best.”
—New Statesman
“Knock-out satirical humour.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Lukes manages to equal the pace and flair of Candide.”
−New York Times Book Review
“Utterly magnetic.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
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