New Enlightenment (Enlightenment Series)

An African game reserve and nearby mission, with London interludes, are the settings for experiences of a great revolution of our time: realising that the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century was in many ways a false enlightenment. It led to seeing man as a material creature devoid of spirit, the antithesis of traditional African thinking. Characters in this novel engage in the great revolution as a new enlightenment is forged in the heat of Africa. Romantic involvements among the novel's characters sharpen the story of inner development and transformation.

About the Author

Serving on university faculty boards of science and medicine gave John Poynton a broad insight into mainstream materialist thinking and its weaknesses. Born in South Africa in 1931, he graduated from the science faculty of the University of Natal (as did Alan Paton) and is an emeritus professor of that university. His scientific research is now centred in London, where he is active in several scientific and cultural organisations. He has published in various areas of the biological sciences as well as in the philosophy of science and in parapsychology, and is author of the novel New Creation, a critique of materialist thinking set in an African game reserve. He studied musical composition at the University of Cape Town and has written music for the stage.

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