The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

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The Rise and Fall of Rational Control is written by Harvey Claflin Mansfield and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674298853 (ISBN 10) and 9780674298859 (ISBN 13).

Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli’s brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, and Hegel all issued challenges, and finally Nietzsche doubted reason entirely. Mansfield asks how we can extract ourselves from Nietzsche’s trap.