The central aim of Rohit Prasad in The Last Dance of Rationality is to situate the contemporary undoing of the World Order—the ‘great unravelling’ (p. ix)—in the slow but sure demise of the ‘age of rationality’ (p. xvi). According to Prasad, this demise entails that the fundamental precepts of the European Enlightenment, viz., ‘reason, empirical observation, and individuality’
‘How did We Get Here? Where are We Headed?’
Mujeeb Kanth
THE LAST DANCE OF RATIONALITY: MAKING SENSE OF AN UNRAVELLING WORLD ORDER by By Rohit Prasad Hachette India, 2023, 365 pp., INR 799.00
May 2024, volume 48, No 5