Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment

The provided text is a book announcement from a philosophical blog called Philosophics, detailing the release of The Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment. This book, authored by Bry Willis, is the first volume in the Anti-Enlightenment Essays series, which critically examines how Enlightenment ideals like progress, objectivity, and rationality have transformed into mechanisms for modern control and management. The overarching Anti-Enlightenment Project proposes a philosophical practice based on nuance, care, and "maintenance work" rather than certainty and mastery, arguing that thought must operate in the "half-light" left after reason has exhausted itself. The announcement specifies the book's availability in paperback and forthcoming clothbound editions, mentioning the subsequent titles in the series, such as Objectivity Is Illusion and Against Agency.https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/20/book-announcement-illusion-of-light/