Conversation with Prof. Joseph Heath (University of Toronto) on his book Enlightenment 2.0

Joseph Heath is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he was formerly the director of the Centre for Ethics and teaches at the School of Public Policy and Governance. His philosophical work includes papers and books in political philosophy, business ethics, rational choice theory, action theory, and critical theory. Heath is member of the Royal Society of Canada and the recipient of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. His book Enlightenment 2.0 won the 2014 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 

Blurb of the book: 

Rational thought cannot prevail in the current social and media environment, where elections are won by appealing to voters' hearts rather than their minds. The rapid-fire pace of modern politics, the hypnotic repetition of daily news items and even the multitude of visual sources of information all make it difficult for the voice of reason to be heard. In Enlightenment 2.0, Joseph Heath outlines a program for a second Enlightenment. The answer, he argues, lies in a new "slow politics." It takes as its point of departure recent psychological and philosophical research that identifies quite clearly the social and environmental preconditions for the exercise of rational thought. It is impossible to restore sanity merely by being sane and trying to speak in a reasonable tone of voice.

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