{"product_id":"critics-of-enlightenment-rationalism-revisited-hardcover","title":"Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGene Callahan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKenneth B. McIntyre\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction2. Conservatism and Social Criticism: Pascal on Faith, Reason, and Politics3. Giambattista Vico and Democratic Pluralism: Lessons for Deliberative Democracy4. A Modest Spinozist: George Eliot and the Limits of Rationalism5. Projections Upon the Void: Irving Babbitt's Critique of Naturalism6. Carl Schmitt's Exceptional Critique of Rationalism7. Moral Man in a Morally Irrational World: Max Weber and the Limits of Reason8. The Moral Personality of Mikhail Bulgakov9. \u003ci\u003eNec Spe Nec Metu\u003c\/i\u003e: Philosophic Catharsis in Karl Löwith's Meaning in History10. Metaphor, Meaning, and Mind: Knowledge and Imagination in Owen Barfield11. Rings and Rationalism: Tolkien's Tales Against Domination12. Shedding the Shackles of Rationalism13. Beautiful Minds: Gregory Bateson on Ecology, Insanity, and Wisdom14. Robert Nisbet: Art, History, and the Anti-Rationalism of Sociological Methodology15. Elizabeth Anscombe on Rationalism16. A.C. Graham on Rationalism, Irrationalism, and Anti-Rationalism (\"Aware Spontaneity\")17. Intention, Intellect, and Imagination: Stuart Hampshire's Pluralism18. Rationality and Tradition in Roger Scruton's Thought19. A Counter-Enlightenment of the Present: A Defense of John Grays' \u003ci\u003eModus Vivendi\u003c\/i\u003e Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of \"Enlightenment rationalism.\" The subjects of the volume (including, among others, Pascal, Vico, Schmitt, Weber, Anscombe, Scruton, and Tolkien) do not share a philosophical tradition as much as a skeptical disposition toward the notion, common among modern thinkers, that there is only one standard of rationality or reasonableness, and that that one standard is or ought to be taken from the presuppositions, methods, and logic of the natural sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays on each thinker are intended not merely to offer a commentary on that thinker, but also to place the person in the context of this larger stream of anti-rationalist thought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGene Callahan\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at New York University.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the author of \u003ci\u003eEconomics for Real People \u003c\/i\u003e(2002), \u003ci\u003eOakeshott on Rome and America \u003c\/i\u003e(2012), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTradition v. Rationalism \u003c\/i\u003e(2018).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth B. McIntyre\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Political Theory: Michael Oakeshott on\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCivil Association \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), \u003ci\u003eHerbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitics\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and \u003ci\u003eNomocratic Pluralism: Plural Values, Negative Liberty, and the Rule of Law \u003c\/i\u003e(2021), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCritics of Enlightenment Rationalism\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 339\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47437602291890,"sku":"9783031052255","price":194.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ada506e93954cd4bbb459f7a7a08c8aa.webp?v=1778654360","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/critics-of-enlightenment-rationalism-revisited-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}