Unreason Within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality

Graham, A.C.

ISBN 10: 0812691679 / ISBN 13: 9780812691672

Published by Open Court, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unreason Within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality
• Publisher: Open Court
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812691679
• ISBN 13: 9780812691672
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The Western tradition has tended to identify thinking with the purely logical, excluding other kinds of thinking (such as thinking by analogy, correlation, imaginative simulation) from philosophy, without denying their indispensability in the conduct of life. The central argument of Unreason Within Reason is that it is this endeavour to detach the logical from other kinds of thinking which has led to the present crisis of rationality, in which reason seems everywhere to be undermining its own foundations.