Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited

Gene Callahan (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 3031052285 / ISBN 13: 9783031052286

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2023

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Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited | Gene Callahan (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism | xiv | Englisch | 2023 | Springer International Publishing | EAN 9783031052286 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031052285
• ISBN 13: 9783031052286
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 20D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 461 grams
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Synopsis

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. 

About the Author

Gene Callahan teaches at New York University. He is the author of Economics for Real People (2002), Oakeshott on Rome and America (2012), and co-editor of Tradition v. Rationalism (2018).

Kenneth B. McIntyre is Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University.  He is the author of The Limits of Political Theory: Michael Oakeshott on Civil Association (2004), Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics (2012), and Nomocratic Pluralism: Plural Values, Negative Liberty, and the Rule of Law (2021), and co-editor of Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism (2021).