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Writing in the same iconoclastic spirit he brought to Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, Canadian writer Saul offers a damning indictment of what he terms corporatism, today's dominant ideology. While the corporatist state maintains a veneer of democracy, it squelches opposition to dominant corporate interests by controlling elected officials through lobbying and by using propaganda and rhetoric to obscure facts and deter communication among citizens. Corporatism, asserts Saul, creates conformists who behave like cogs in organizational hierarchies, not responsible citizens. Moreover, today's managerial-technocratic elite, while glorifying free markets, technology, computers and globalization, is, in Saul's opinion, narrowly self-serving and unable to cope with economic stagnation. His prescriptions include eliminating private-sector financing from electoral politics, renewing citizen participation in public affairs, massive creation of public-service jobs and a humanist education to replace narrow specialization. His erudite, often profound analysis challenges conservatives and liberals alike with its sweeping critique of Western culture, society and economic organization.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.


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Self-knowledge was always a main goal of Western civilization, but the self to be known was understood in generous terms as the basis of community. Saul says that as the gap widens between the worst off and best off, self-knowledge has become self-interest. In Voltaire's Bastards (LJ 9/92), Saul?historian, thriller writer and successful businessman?attacked "rationality" conceived as the pursuit of one's own interest, which comes under fire again, along with passivity, disregard of language, and the quest for an impossible certainty. Lost is the free and open society that comes from a skeptical balance of common sense, ethics, imagination, intuition, history, and reason. Saul marches fast, firing telling volleys at his targets, but he also fires on religious "ideologies" that involve a presumed self-knowledge binding humanity to God and eternity. Thus, he leaves the individual to strike a balance much like the one recommended by the self-interested pragmatists he despises. Still, this is a good book for anyone who likes to see ideas at work. Saul knows how to reach ordinary readers.?Leslie Armour, Univ. of Ottawa
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Challenging and eye-opening, Aoû 16 2006
"The Unconscious Civilization" is a reworking for radio of Saul's "The Doubter's Companion" (ISBN 0140237070), a book published a year prior. The "Companion" struck hard because it was laden with acerbic black humor; "Unconscious Civilization" comes across as more serious, although all the same themes are here as in the earlier work.

Saul's main theme -- a critique of Corporatism (implying not only corporate business but any incorporate group, such as labor unions, AIDS activists, raging grannies, NIMBYs, or lobbyists) -- was something of an eye-opener for me, as I'm sure it was for other readers not as well-versed in political theory. Corporatism really does describe the state of current democracy in most Western countries; it should be more than a little chilling to understand how current polities have their roots in Fascism. (No joke! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism)

Saul's text should also explain, at least in some way, the animosity felt for Saul's wife, Adrienne Clarkson, by the Conservative government under Stephen Harper in Canada. (For those of you outside of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson was the former Governor General of Canada. She was roundly criticized by the then Opposition Conservatives as being wasteful of Canadian taxpayer's money.) That Clarkson's husband excoriates the very kind of government the Conservatives are -- and that this might have colored the the Conservative brain-trust's views of Clarkson -- shouldn't be lost on most readers.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Outrageous ideas indeed., Avril 9 2000
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The Unconscious Civilization is a baffling book for those who are unused to questioning the received wisdom - all of the received wisdom - of our civilization. For that reason, the readership seems to be neatly split between those who consider Saul a genius and those who consider him an idiot or a traitor. This is based on how solidly the veil of received wisdom shields their minds from his incisive, world-inverting ideas.

Read this book. A mind, once stretched, never shrinks to its original dimensions.

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