Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism

This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of "Enlightenment rationalism." The subjects of the volume-including, among others, Burke, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, C.S. Lewis, Gabriel Marcel, Russell Kirk, and Jane Jacobs-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 that thinker in the context of this larger stream of anti-rationalist thought. Thus, while this volume is not a history of anti-rationalist thought, it may contain the intimations of such a history.

Auteur

Eugene 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) and Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics (2012).

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This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of Enlightenment rationalism. The subjects of the volumeincluding, among others, Burke, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, C.S. Lewis, Gabriel Marcel, Russell Kirk, and Jane Jacobsdo 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 that thinker in the context of this larger stream of anti-rationalist thought. Thus, while this volume is not a history of anti-rationalist thought, it may contain the intimations of such a history.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction, by Gene Callahan and Kenneth McIntyre

Chapter 2: Burke on Rationalism, Prudence and Reason of State, by Ferenc Hörcher

Chapter 3: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Uneasy Friendship between Reason and Freedom, by Travis D. Smith and Jin Jin

Chapter 4: Kierkegaard's Later Critique of Political Rationalism, by Robert Wyllie

Chapter 5: Friedrich Nietzsche: The Hammer Goes to Monticello, by Justin Garrison

Chapter 6: Pagans, Christians, Poets, by Corey Abel

Chapter 7: Wittgenstein on Rationalism, by Daniel Sportiello

Chapter 8: Heidegger's Critique of Rationalism and Modernity, by Jack Simmons Chapter 9: Gabriel Marcel: Mystery in an Age of Problems, by Steven Knepper

Chapter 10: Michael Polanyi: A Scientist Against Scientism, by Charles Lowney

Chapter 11: C.S. Lewis: Reason, Imagination, and the Abolition of Man, by Luke C. Sheahan

Chapter 12: Hayek: Postatomic Liberal, Nick Cowen

Chapter 13: Anti-rationalism, Relativism, and the Metaphysical Tradition: Situating Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics, by Ryan Holston

Chapter 14: Eric Voegelin and Enlightenment Rationalism, by Michael P. Federici

Chapter 15: Michael Oakeshott's Critique of Modern Rationalism, by Wendell John Coats Jr.

Chapter 16: Isaiah Berlin on Monism, by Jason Ferrell Chapter 17: Russell Kirk: The Mystery of Human Existence, by Nathanael Blake

Chapter 18: Jane Jacobs and the Knowledge Problem in Cities, by Sanford Ikeda

Chapter 19: Practical Reason and Teleology: MacIntyre's Critique of Modern Moral Philosophy, by Kenneth McIntyre