{"product_id":"the-illusion-of-light-bry-willis-9780971086975","title":"The Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment called itself an awakening. Bry Willis argues it was the longest dream in history.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this erudite yet accessible meditation, philosopher Bry Willis traces how the Enlightenment's promise of illumination became the organizing myth of modernity - the belief that light reveals, that progress redeems, that reason saves. \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Light\u003c\/i\u003e reframes that heritage as both brilliance and blindness: a radiance that made the world visible by erasing its shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on history, philosophy, and cultural critique, Willis guides readers through six \"rooms\" of reason - from objectivity and democracy to progress, agency, normality, and redemption - showing how each was built on foundations that cannot hold. What emerges is not cynicism but composure: a practice of thinking in the half-light, where clarity and humility coexist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume completes the \u003cb\u003eAnti-Enlightenment Project\u003c\/b\u003e, gathering and reinterpreting the ideas developed across Willis's earlier essays (\u003ci\u003eObjectivity Is Illusion, Rational Ghosts, Temporal Ghosts, Against Agency, The Myth of Homo Normalis, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Discipline of Dis-Integration\u003c\/i\u003e). Written for the erudite general reader, \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Light\u003c\/i\u003e invites a different kind of lucidity - one that no longer mistakes brightness for truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bry Willis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0971086974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780971086975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Microglyphics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Bry Willis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447099076863,"sku":"9780971086975","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a30f516-c996-43c8-9f27-193de2f06ff6.jpg?v=1777228813","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-illusion-of-light-bry-willis-9780971086975","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}