Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited

Gene Callahan teaches at New York University. He is the author of Economics for Real People (2002), Oakeshott on Rome and America (2012), and co-editor of Tradition v. Rationalism (2018). Kenneth B. McIntyre is Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of The Limits of Political Theory: Michael Oakeshott on Civil Association (2004), Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics (2012), and Nomocratic Pluralism: Plural Values, Negative Liberty, and the Rule of Law (2021), and co-editor of Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism (2021).

1. Introduction.- 2. Conservatism and Social Criticism: Pascal on Faith, Reason, and Politics.- 3. Giambattista Vico and Democratic Pluralism: Lessons for Deliberative Democracy.- 4. A Modest Spinozist: George Eliot and the Limits of Rationalism.- 5. Projections Upon the Void: Irving Babbitt's Critique of Naturalism.- 6. Carl Schmitt's Exceptional Critique of Rationalism.- 7. Moral Man in a Morally Irrational World: Max Weber and the Limits of Reason.- 8. The Moral Personality of Mikhail Bulgakov.- 9. Nec Spe Nec Metu: Philosophic Catharsis in Karl Löwith's Meaning in History.- 10. Metaphor, Meaning, and Mind: Knowledge and Imagination in Owen Barfield.- 11. Rings and Rationalism: Tolkien's Tales Against Domination.- 12. Shedding the Shackles of Rationalism.- 13. Beautiful Minds: Gregory Bateson on Ecology, Insanity, and Wisdom.- 14. Robert Nisbet: Art, History, and the Anti-Rationalism of Sociological Methodology.- 15. Elizabeth Anscombe on Rationalism.- 16. A.C. Graham on Rationalism, Irrationalism, and Anti-Rationalism ("Aware Spontaneity").- 17. Intention, Intellect, and Imagination: Stuart Hampshire's Pluralism.- 18. Rationality and Tradition in Roger Scruton's Thought.- 19. A Counter-Enlightenment of the Present: A Defense of John Grays'  Modus Vivendi Liberalism.