Introduction

Our Historical Moment
  • Carlo Strenger
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Abstract

We are awakening from a period that Immanuel Kant would have called one of dogmatic slumber.1 But as opposed to the dogmatic slumbers of previous centuries governed by metaphysical and religious beliefs that Kant dismantled in his Critique of Pure Reason (1781), the last decades will probably go into history as the age of mindless fantasies of omnipotence and of thoughtless free market dogmatism.

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