anti-Aufklärer

Personal opinion:  In the absence of reason, rules and dogma the brain solves problems while we sleep and thus restores our sense of well being - or at least a being we believe we can live with.  Awakening challenges us to be who we are among those who make the laws that govern our lives.  

  "...his deepest appeal lies in an unspoken promise that lies behind the others: to undo the Enlightenment, to free us from the burdens of living rationally in a world where nothing is settled and where everything—economic well-being, national borders, gender identities, domestic arrangements—is up for grabs."


 This article was first published in the Baffler No 41, and on thebaffler.com 
by  Gary Greenberg