Reason and culture : the historic role of rationality and rationalism /
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| Author / Creator: | Gellner, Ernest |
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| Imprint: | Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Basil Blackwell, 1992. |
| Description: | xi, 193 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New perspectives on the past New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1291330 |
Table of Contents:
- Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Reason and Culture
- The curse of custom and example
- Reason against Culture
- The missing charter
- The Copernican counter-revolution
- Resume
- 2. The Roots of Compulsion
- The wheel comes full circle
- Denouement
- Descartes v. Durkheim
- Selective compulsion, or Durkheim and Weber
- A rational mind in a rational world
- 3. The Confrontations of Reason
- Introduction
- Reason observed
- 4. The Mundane Enemies of Reason
- The spirit of history
- Dark gods against Reason
- Therapeutic irrationalism
- 5. Ailments of Reason
- Nature devours Reason
- Pre-established harmony returns
- Harmony or siege
- The old and new adversary
- The impotence of Reason
- The vindication of inference
- 6. Counter-Currents
- Absolutism returns for pragmatic reasons
- The sovereignty of culture
- Creativity through constraint
- Treason most foul
- Checklist of Reason-bashing
- 7. Rationality as a Way of Life
- Economy One: production
- Economy Two: consumption
- Cognition
- Culture
- Power and politics
- The variety of rational experience
- 8. Prometheus Perplexed
- Autonomy lost
- Transcendence and relativism
- Rationalism and empiricism in partnership
- Reason against Passion
- 9. Recapitulation
- Select Bibliography
- Index