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Enlightenment, Haskalah, and the Dangers of Reason

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Rereading Foucault's "What is Enlightenment?" I was struck by this observation: * Are there others who think this way and/or are suspicious of Reason? Two passages from Darrin M. McMahon "Sweep of reason" (Boston Globe, June 22, 2003):