Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason

ISBN-13: 9780691178677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Justin E. H. Smith

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A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value. Discove