Critics of Enlightenment rationalism [electronic resource] / Gene Callahan, Kenneth B. McIntyre, editors.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Callahan, Gene, McIntyre, Kenneth B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Burke on Rationalism, Prudence and Reason of State
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • Chapter 3: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Uneasy Friendship Between Reason and Freedom
  • A Science of Freedom
  • On the French Question
  • Democratization and the Authority of Science
  • Reason and Freedom in America
  • On Friendly Terms
  • Chapter 4: Kierkegaard's Later Critique of Political Rationalism
  • Chapter 5: Friedrich Nietzsche: The Hammer Goes to Monticello
  • The Oracle of Reason.
  • What the Oracle Says About the Human Person and Politics
  • What the Oracle Is
  • Overcoming the Oracle?
  • Chapter 6: "Pagans, Christians, Poets"
  • A Concluding Venture
  • Chapter 7: Wittgenstein on Rationalism
  • Introduction
  • Language-Games
  • Rule-Following
  • Forms of Life
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 8: Heidegger's Critique of Rationalism and Modernity
  • The Appearance of Objects in Science
  • Scientific Reductionism
  • Transcendental Logic
  • Transcendental Objects
  • Causation and Freedom
  • Technological Thinking
  • Chapter 9: Gabriel Marcel: Mystery in an Age of Problems.
  • Chapter 10: Michael Polanyi: A Scientist Against Scientism
  • Polanyi and the Enlightenment Roots of Twentieth-Century Political Extremism
  • Historical Setting: The Rise of a Science Misconceived
  • Correcting the Excesses of Scientific Rationalism
  • Personal Knowledge and Tacit Knowing
  • Interpretive Frameworks, Discovery, and Non-Skeptical Fallibilism
  • Emergent Being and Indwelling
  • Reality, Morality, Science, and Society
  • Conclusion: Progress via Dynamic Orthodoxy
  • Chapter 11: C.S. Lewis: Reason, Imagination, and the Abolition of Man
  • "Looking At" Versus "Looking Along"
  • Transposition
  • The Metaphor of Light
  • The Model of the Universe
  • The Abolition of Man
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Hayek: Postatomic Liberal
  • The Rationalist Worldview
  • Rationalism's Discontents
  • The Hayekian Alternative
  • Psychology
  • Epistemology and Ontology
  • Economic and Social Theory
  • Political and Legal Theory
  • Legacy and Future
  • Chapter 13: "Anti-rationalism, Relativism, and the Metaphysical Tradition: Situating Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics"
  • Introduction
  • Lost Truth and the Human Sciences
  • The Early Heidegger
  • The Historicity of the Good
  • Conclusion.
  • Chapter 14: Eric Voegelin and Enlightenment Rationalism
  • Pseudo-Spirituality
  • Progressive Historicism
  • The Irrationality of the Enlightenment and the Problem of Method
  • HelvĂ©tius, D'Alembert, Turgot, Condorcet, and Comte
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 15: Michael Oakeshott's Critique of Modern Rationalism
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 16: Isaiah Berlin on Monism
  • Introduction
  • Monism and Its Iterations
  • Monism and History
  • Monism and Philosophy
  • Monism and Politics
  • Appraisal and Conclusions
  • Chapter 17: Russell Kirk: The Mystery of Human Existence
  • Introduction
  • Reason's Limits.