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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 290 pp., xiii. '3' in number line. Stated: "The current English translation is a revised and updated version of the original Danish book [1991]". Following the Preface and Map of Downtown Aalborg, Contents divided into 20 Essays: 1. "In Some Remote Corner of the Universe"; 2. "The Aalborg Project"; 3. "Bacon and Nietzsche Come to Northern Jutland"; 4. "Power Defines Reality"; 5. "Rationality as Frozen Politics"; 6. "The Rationality of Resistance"; 7. "The Weakness of the Better Argument"; 8. "The Longue Duree of Power"; 9/ "Rationality in the Context of Power"; 10. "Interpretation over Truth"; 11. "Antagonistic Reactions at Play"; 12. "Farewell to Reason"; 13. "The Dream Plan"; 14. "Knowledge Kills Action"; 15. "Minutiae Matter"; 16. "Myths Die Hard"; 17. "Exit the Innovators"; 18. "A Single Drama . . . with an Endless Play of Dominations"; 19. "Reality Check"; 20. "Power Has a Rationality that Rationality Does Not Know"; Postscript, p. 237; Appendix A: Main Actors in the Aalborg Project, pp. 240-241; Appendix B: Chronology of the Aalborg Project, pp. 243-244; Appendix C: Elements in the Original Aalborg Project, pp. 245-248 \v; Notes, pp. 249-276; Index, pp. 277-290. Glossy wrappers with purple gradual shading from dark to light down the front cover; title lettering in white and black; author name lettering in white letters at top right front cover. Essentially, as you could find it on the shelf of your favorite Indie bookstore. UNREAD.