Ebook: Voltaires Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Dedication; Epigraph; Twenty Years On; Part I: Argument; Chapter 1: In Which the Narrator Positions Himself; Chapter 2: The Theology of Power; Chapter 3: The Rise of Reason; Chapter 4: The Rational Courtesan; Chapter 5: Voltaire's Children; Chapter 6: The Flowering of Armaments; Part II: Scenes From a System that Doesn't Work; Chapter 7: The Question of Killing; Chapter 8: Learning How to Organize Death; Chapter 9: Persistent Continuity at the Heart of Power; Chapter 10: In the Service of the Greater Self; Chapter 11: Three Short Excursions into the Unreasonable.