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The Age of the Manufactured Man: How the Enlightenment Shaped the Modern Human Condition

The Age of the Manufactured Man: How the Enlightenment Shaped the Modern Human Condition

Striker, William J.

Paperback

PhilosophyAnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798999519245
Publisher: Lighthouse Academy Press
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What happens when a civilization comes to believe that the human being can be redesigned?

The Age of the Manufactured Man traces a single, unbroken thread through modern history: the belief that human beings can be redesigned.

From the Enlightenment's promise of reason and progress emerged a new conception of the human being - not as a creature living within inherited limits, but as something malleable, improvable, and ultimately makeable. Over time, this idea reshaped politics, governance, and culture, giving rise to revolutionary movements, technocratic systems, therapeutic states, and algorithmic forms of control.

This book follows that lineage across five centuries, from the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution through the upheavals of the twentieth century and into the present digital age. It examines how the ambition to perfect humanity moved from philosophy into policy, from ideology into administration, and finally into the inner life of the individual.

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