The Rise and Fall of Rational Control Eve Rodsky Don Quixote has become so

Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself

But overhead

amid the turbulent push and pull of near constant war

This is a story about life--how it ends

The Rise and Fall of Rational Control Eve Rodsky Don Quixote has become soBy: Harvey Claflin Mansfield Published by Harvard University Press, 2026 01 20 Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavellis brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, and Hegel all issued challenges, and finally Nietzsche doubted reason entirely. Mansfield asks how we can extract ourselves from Nietzsches trap.