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irrationalismFeature of many philosophies rather than a philosophical movement. Irrationalists deny that the world can be comprehended by conceptual thought, and often see the human mind as determined by unconscious forces. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In 1999 Wendy Kaminer, in Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety (Pantheon), complained that advocating atheism and criticizing religion were still "like burning a flag in an American Legion hall. Sleeping with extra-terrestrials: The rise of irrationalism and perils of piety. And like so many German Jews, Husserl was thoroughly assimilated, more German than Jew, the product of high German intellectual culture, the "Good European" profoundly concerned with the destiny of a contemporary Europe dominated by Heidegger on the one hand and the Vienna Circle on the other; the rationalist offended, astonished, and challenged by the philosophical irrationalism, skepticism, and mysticism of his day and among his own disciples. |
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