2011
DOI: 10.2478/v10121-010-0006-5
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Living in the face of menacing ‘unreason’ - Martin Amis's The second plane as a response to ideological fundamentalisms

Abstract: This work touches upon Martin Amis's diagnosis of the Western world and its cultural foundations which seem to have been threatened, as maintained by the author, by a specific form of "de-Enlightenment" (2008). Amis, a repository of Western intellectual ethos, steps to the fore to defend reason. In view of the world's unrests, he fosters a thorough investigation of public beliefs, either of a religious or political nature, highlighting how deeply individual freedom has been censored and imperiled by various fu… Show more

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