irrationalism, n.Definitions

Irrationalism (n.) rules ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unnoticed in the defense of "logic" itself, which refuses to ask what logos and reason are.

Irrationalism (n.) curbs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠cold reason in the name of immediate life, but turns life into a principle that is merely hostile to thought — kin to the very positivism it scorns.

Irrationalism (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the late nineteenth century was the necessary fruit of the Enlightenment's attack on religion: reason without its founding exception turns into blind self-destroying skepticism.

Irrationalism (n.) burrows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the irrational without breaking with modernity — it confirms the heretofore without qualification, and modernity needs it to complete itself.

Irrationalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only the weakness and failure of rationalism made visible, and so itself a rationalism — a way out that leads not into the open but deeper in, playing the same games more dangerously because covertly.

Irrationalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠rationalism's counterplay: it talks about what reason is blind to, but only with a squint.

Irrationalism (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠argue to be heard — and so turns out to be only a narrow, bad rationality, the rationality of "lazy reason" that ducks the work of clarifying its own grounds.

Irrationalism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an empty charge as long as we do not know what ratio itself is; the frenzy of rationalization and the intoxication of cybernetics may be the truly irrational.