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The Doubter's Companion A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Paperback • 1994 • English

The Doubter's Companion A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

By John Ralston Saul

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A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early dictionaries and encyclopedias were really weapons in a struggle for the soul of civilization between forces of humanistic enlightenment and the forces of orthodoxy and dogmatism. Their authors attacke...Show more

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9780743236607

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

The Doubter's Companion A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Format

Paperback

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