{"product_id":"the-illusion-of-light-thinking-after-the-enlightenment-hardcover","title":"The Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBry Willis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBry Willis\u003c\/b\u003e (Cover Design by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Enlightenment called itself an awakening. Bry Willis argues it was the longest dream in history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this erudite yet accessible meditation, philosopher Bry Willis traces how the Enlightenment's promise of illumination became the organising myth of modernity - the belief that light reveals, that progress redeems, that reason saves. \u003cem\u003eThe Illusion of Light\u003c\/em\u003e reframes that heritage as both brilliance and blindness: a radiance that made the world visible by erasing its shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on history, philosophy, and cultural critique, Willis guides readers through six \"rooms\" of reason - from objectivity and democracy to progress, agency, normality, and redemption - showing how each was built on foundations that cannot hold. What emerges is not cynicism but composure: a practice of thinking in the half-light, where clarity and humility coexist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume completes the \u003cstrong\u003eAnti-Enlightenment Project\u003c\/strong\u003e, gathering and reinterpreting the ideas developed across Willis's earlier essays (\u003cem\u003eObjectivity Is Illusion, Rational Ghosts, Temporal Ghosts, Against Agency, The Myth of Homo Normalis, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Discipline of Dis-Integration\u003c\/em\u003e). Written for the erudite general reader, \u003cem\u003eThe Illusion of Light\u003c\/em\u003e invites a different kind of lucidity - one that no longer mistakes brightness for truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45518989852751,"sku":"9780971086937","price":39.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/guykp9aPUq9780971086937.webp?v=1780757707","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/the-illusion-of-light-thinking-after-the-enlightenment-hardcover","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}