Economists, political theorists, moral and political philosophers, sociologists, and even the general public rapidly took notice of what seemed like – and indeed was – a devastating result. Two centuries after visions of social rationality flowered in Enlightenment thinking, the project suddenly seemed, at least superficially, to be inescapably doomed.
经济学家、政治理论家、道德和政治哲学家、社会学家、甚至普罗大众很快就注意到了这个似乎——也确实是——灾难性的结果。在社会理性观点借助文艺复兴思想发展了两个世纪之后，这项大工程突然走向了无可避免的倒塌——至少从表面看是如此。