{"product_id":"the-age-of-the-manufactured-william-j-striker-9798999519245","title":"The Age of the Manufactured Man: How the Enlightenment Shaped the Modern Human Condition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat happens when a civilization comes to believe that the human being can be redesigned?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Age of the Manufactured Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e traces a single, unbroken thread through modern history: the belief that human beings can be redesigned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Enlightenment's promise of reason and progress emerged a new conception of the human being - not as a creature living within inherited limits, but as something malleable, improvable, and ultimately \u003ci\u003emakeable\u003c\/i\u003e. Over time, this idea reshaped politics, governance, and culture, giving rise to revolutionary movements, technocratic systems, therapeutic states, and algorithmic forms of control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book follows that lineage across five centuries, from the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution through the upheavals of the twentieth century and into the present digital age. It examines how the ambition to perfect humanity moved from philosophy into policy, from ideology into administration, and finally into the inner life of the individual.\u003cbr\u003eWritten with clarity and restraint, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of the Manufactured Man\u003c\/i\u003e is not a polemic and offers no blueprint for reform. Instead, it seeks to restore proportion - placing modern anxieties within their long historical arc and recovering a sense of scale often lost in contemporary debate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat emerges is not a call to abandon modernity, but an invitation to understand it more deeply - and to stand within its limits without illusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis work was developed through a human-AI collaboration. Draft materials were generated with the assistance of AI tools, after which the author revised, structured, and refined all text to ensure coherence, intent, and literary voice.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William J. Striker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798999519245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lighthouse Academy Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"William J. Striker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440666587391,"sku":"9798999519245","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b85bd9d-4ddd-43e9-b379-11fe6612dbf8.jpg?v=1777183992","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-age-of-the-manufactured-william-j-striker-9798999519245","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}