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A brave and bracing account of the flaws at the heart of modern philosophy and their overcoming in Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard. As with all of Polka's works, the thinkers may not be treated as you expect. The moves Polka makes may not be readily embraced. But this thinking is for all readers in modernity. We don't need Polka's book to know what he knows; we need Polka's book to know what there is to know, and to expose the confusions of knowing (and doing) otherwise. This is not self-help. This is critique. -- Nancy Levene, Yale University Polka's new book explores with great tenacity and verve the foundational import for modernity of the myth of the fall. The author provides robust, careful readings of some of the central documents of modern philosophy organized around this still under-examined topic. A great virtue of the book is how it forces us to reconsider many of the platitudes and pieties in recent thinking about secularism. -- Ian Balfour, Professor of English, York University

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Brayton Polka is professor emeritus of humanities and social and political thought at York University.

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