The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusAnalyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... Lawrence , a far abler and more talented man , prophesied that downturn in events as long as sixty years ago , in his violent rejec- tion of the Renaissance ideal of rationality . The curious thing is that Lawrence , for all his ...
... Lawrence , a far abler and more talented man , prophesied that downturn in events as long as sixty years ago , in his violent rejec- tion of the Renaissance ideal of rationality . The curious thing is that Lawrence , for all his ...
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... Lawrence in any case is speaking not from nature knowledge but from intu- ition , a faculty that generates not pedestrian statements of fact but myths embodying truth . Who cares about strict scientific ac- curacy if a bit of inspired ...
... Lawrence in any case is speaking not from nature knowledge but from intu- ition , a faculty that generates not pedestrian statements of fact but myths embodying truth . Who cares about strict scientific ac- curacy if a bit of inspired ...
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... Lawrence so bitterly objected to became possible , along with much else he could hardly have foreseen . Like Lawrence , the angry , dejected , nonsense - prone children of the ' 60s were not stupid . The element of " camp " —mocking ...
... Lawrence so bitterly objected to became possible , along with much else he could hardly have foreseen . Like Lawrence , the angry , dejected , nonsense - prone children of the ' 60s were not stupid . The element of " camp " —mocking ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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