Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited

This 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...

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Other Authors: Callahan, Gene (Editor), McIntyre, Kenneth B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Conservatism and Social Criticism: Pascal on Faith, Reason, and Politics -- 3. Giambattista Vico and Democratic Pluralism: Lessons for Deliberative Democracy -- 4. A Modest Spinozist: George Eliot and the Limits of Rationalism -- 5. Projections Upon the Void: Irving Babbitt’s Critique of Naturalism -- 6. Carl Schmitt's Exceptional Critique of Rationalism -- 7. Moral Man in a Morally Irrational World: Max Weber and the Limits of Reason -- 8. The Moral Personality of Mikhail Bulgakov -- 9. Nec Spe Nec Metu: Philosophic Catharsis in Karl Löwith’s Meaning in History -- 10. Metaphor, Meaning, and Mind: Knowledge and Imagination in Owen Barfield -- 11. Rings and Rationalism: Tolkien’s Tales Against Domination -- 12. Shedding the Shackles of Rationalism -- 13. Beautiful Minds: Gregory Bateson on Ecology, Insanity, and Wisdom -- 14. Robert Nisbet: Art, History, and the Anti-Rationalism of Sociological Methodology -- 15. Elizabeth Anscombe on Rationalism -- 16. A.C. Graham on Rationalism, Irrationalism, and Anti-Rationalism (“Aware Spontaneity”) -- 17. Intention, Intellect, and Imagination: Stuart Hampshire’s Pluralism -- 18. Rationality and Tradition in Roger Scruton’s Thought -- 19. A Counter-Enlightenment of the Present: A Defense of John Grays' Modus Vivendi Liberalism 
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520 |a This 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. The 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.