Affect Enlightenment

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation.

Was there a conservative Enlightenment? Could a self-proclaimed man of learning and progressive science also have been an agent of monarchy and reaction? Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), an educated Scottish emigrant and powerful colonial politician, was at the forefront of American intellectual culture in the mid-eighteenth century.

Peter Ralston responds to 150 questions about consciousness from a global spectrum of people striving to grasp the nature of their own selves