Irrationality (eBook)

A History of the Dark Side of Reason

Justin Smith-Ruiu (Autor)

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2020
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21082-7 (ISBN)

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From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will beIn this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history. Ranging across philosophy, politics, and current events, he shows that, throughout history, every triumph of reason has been temporary and reversible, and that rational schemes often result in their polar opposite. Illuminating unreason at a moment when the world appears to have gone mad again, Irrationality is timely, provocative, and fascinating.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: absurdity • Age of Enlightenment • Alternative medicine • alt-right • americans • Analogy • Astrology • authoritarianism • Biology • Causality • Chinua Achebe • Concept • Consciousness • Conspiracy Theory • Counter-Enlightenment • Creationism • Creation Science • Criticism • Deliberation • dichotomy • ethics • Explanation • Extremism • Falsity • Fitbit • freedom of speech • Gender identity • Hippasus • Horoscope • Humour • Identitarian movement • Ideology • Illustration • Imagination • Indication (medicine) • inference • Institution • Irrationality • Irrational Man • Jack Goody • Jacques Derrida • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Ken Ham • liberal democracy • Literature • Logic • Madness and Civilization • Martin Heidegger • Melanesia • Michel Foucault • modern philosophy • neo-nazism • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Pierre Gassendi • Politician • Politics • Pretext • Principle • Pseudodoxia Epidemica • Pseudoscience • Psychoanalysis • Public sphere • Pythagoreanism • Racism • Rationalism • Rationality • Reality • reason • Religion • rhetoric • Richard Wollheim • right-wing populism • Romanticism • Satire • Science • Scientist • sensibility • Social reality • SOPHISM • Søren Kierkegaard • Suffering • Superiority (short story) • syllogism • Symptom • Technology • terence • Tertullian • theory • The Philosopher • The Various • Thought • Transgender • treatise • Twitter • Uncertainty • Useful idiot • white supremacy • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21082-9 / 0691210829
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21082-7 / 9780691210827