num_pages: 161
description: Undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe.
language: English
title: Modernity's Pretenses: Making Reality Fit Reason from Candide to the Gulag
titlecomplete: Modernity's Pretenses: Making Reality Fit Reason from Candide to the Gulag (Suny Postmodern Culture)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: State University of New York Press