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Author : Michael Rustin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780567067227
The justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge and its relevance to social and political questions.
Author : Morris Ginsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499996418
Author : Angus Charles Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UCAL:B4386351
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.
Author : Morris Ginsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Law
ISBN : UIUC:30112012026081
Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400096381
A scathing indictment of American modern-day culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public, condemning our addiction to infotainment, from TV to the Web, and assessing its repercussions for the country as a whole. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350015838
The twenty-first century so far has seen the global rise of authoritarian populism, systematic racism, and dogmatic metaphysics. Even though these events demonstrate the growth of an age of 'unreason', in this original and compelling book John Roberts resists the assumption that such thinking displays an unthinking irrationality or loss of reason; instead he asserts that an important feature of modern reactionary politics is that it offers a supposedly convincing integration of the particular and the universal. This move is defined by what Roberts calls the 'reasoning of unreason' and has deep roots in the history of Western thought and politics. Tracing the dark history of enlightenment-disenlightenment, John Roberts explores 'the reasoning of unreason' across centuries from Aquinas, William of Ockham, the most important treatise on witchcraft Malleus Maleficarum, Locke, Kant, and Count Arthur de Gobineau, to Social Darwinism, Nazism, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and Friedrich von Hayek. Roberts provides a new set of philosophical-political tools to understand the formation and denigration of the rational subject and the current reinvestment in various forms of political unreason globally. The Reasoning of Unreason is the first book to draw on the philosophy of reason, political philosophy, political theory and political history, in order to produce a dialectical account of the 'making of reason' internal to the forces of unreason and the limits of reason.
Author : Gabriel Weimann,Abraham Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136827686
This book examines reason and unreason in the legal and political responses to terrorism. Terrorism is often perceived as sheer madness, unreasonable use of extreme violence and senseless, futile political action. These assertions are challenged by this book. Combining ‘traditional’ thought (by Kaplan) on reason and unreason in terrorism with empirical explorations of post-modern terrorism and its use of communication platforms (by Weimann) the work uses interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary dimensions to provide a multidimensional picture of critical issues in current politics and a deeper examination of their implications than previously available. The book looks at various aspects of modern politics, from terrorism to protest, from decision-making to political discourse, applying the perspective of philosophical thought. To do so, political issues and actions are examined by using concepts such as reason, emotions, madness, magic, morality, absolutism, extremism, psychopathology, rationality and others. The analysis is rooted in theories and concepts derived from history, philosophy, religion, art, sociology, psychology, and political science. This book, which was mostly written by the late Abraham Kaplan, an American philosopher, and edited and updated by Gabriel Weimann, will be of much interest to students of political violence/terrorism, philosophy, war and conflict studies and political science in general.
Author : Chronicle Books (Firm)
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000039072214
Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691192109
Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism’s infatuation with fascism has been extensive and widespread. He questions postmodernism’s claim to have inherited the mantle of the Left, suggesting instead that it has long been enamored with the opposite end of the political spectrum. Wolin reveals how, during in the 1930s, C. G. Jung, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot were seduced by fascism's promise of political regeneration and how this misapprehension affected the intellectual core of their work. The result is a compelling and unsettling reinterpretation of the history of modern thought. In a new preface, Wolin revisits this illiberal intellectual lineage in light of the contemporary resurgence of political authoritarianism.
Author : Morris Ginsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Law
ISBN : OCLC:237228213
Author : Daisie Radner,Michael Radner
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3613716
Author : Morris Ginsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Law
ISBN : LCCN:nun00446610
Author : Jennifer Radden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000071986
Originally published in 1985, this book provides a philosophical analysis of the concepts of madness and moral responsibility. It challenges the view that because they are victims of mental illness, the insane should not be blamed for actions resulting from their condition. The author urges a return to the neglected equation between madness and a want of reason, arguing that the impulse to excuse the criminally insane must be grounded in an appeal to their irrationality and unreasonableness. Through meticulous examination of the psychological states and behaviour patterns of major mental abnormalities, such as schizophrenia and depression, the author develops a notion of exculpating unreason. This is an interdisciplinary book which encompasses analytical philosophy, abnormal psychology and law.
Author : Jim Harrison
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619320383
One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Sunday Times
Author : Dick Taverne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191578618
Our daily news bulletins bring us tales of the wonder of science, from Mars rovers and intelligent robots to developments in cancer treatment, and yet often the emphasis is on the potential threats posed by science. It appears that irrationality is on the rise in western society, and public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and unwillingness to engage with factual evidence. From genetically modified crops and food, organic farming, the MMR vaccine, environmentalism, the precautionary principle and the new anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation movements, the rejection of the evidence-based approach nurtures a culture of suspicion, distrust, and cynicism, and leads to dogmatic assertion and intolerance. In this compelling and timely examination of science and society, Dick Taverne argues that science, with all the benefits it brings, is an essential part of civilised and democratic society: it offers the most hopeful future for mankind.
