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With debates on the meaning of "liberal society" more heated than ever, this is a timely re-issue of a classic text

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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