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  1. John Ralston Saul has 61 books on Goodreads with 16491 ratings. John Ralston Saul’s most popular book is Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason ...

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  2. John Ralston Saul CC OOnt (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-led societies; [1] the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in ...

  3. VOLTAIRE’S BASTARDS: THE DICTATORSHIP OF REASON IN THE WEST. Published in Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Serbia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States. 2013: 20TH Anniversary Reissue by Simon & Schuster with a forward by John Ralston Saul and an introduction by Chris Hedges.

  4. With great daring and originality, John Ralston Saul dissects the contradictions, delusions, and illusions that have brought the world to the brink of confusion and crisis, and shatters the myths surrounding the icons and institutions that we have been taught to revere and cherish.

  5. John Ralston Saul is a Canadian author, essayist, and President of International PEN. As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism ...

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  6. Saul locates the source of many of the contemporary world's problems in a perversion of reason. He argues that while Voltaire had hoped to use reason as a tool to overthrow outmoded and harsh customs, his successors instead employed reason as an instrument of social control.

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  7. With On Equilibrium, John Ralston Saul convincingly stakes his claim for a place in the great philosophical continuum by contributing his own perspective to the key questions: What is a good life? What constitutes a good society?

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