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Its ambassadors are the heroes of modern culture: Erasmus, Holbein, Shakespeare, Velázquez, Descartes, Kant, and Freud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose who sought to contain humanism’s pride within a frame of higher truth—Luther, Calvin, Poussin, Kierkegaard—could barely interrupt its torrential progress. Those who sought to reform humanism's tenets—Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche—were tested by the success of their own prophecies. So runs the approved view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not shared by John Carroll. Rather, he articulates a disruptive and compelling alternative version of Western civilisation since the Renaissance and the Reformation contrived to unleash Reason, Will, and a superhuman Man on the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Carroll significantly reworks his bracing study of humanism’s rise to pre-eminence and its headlong tumble into contradiction. 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