Unreason Within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality

by A.C. Graham

The Western tradition has tended to identify thinking with the purely logical, excluding other kinds of thinking (such as thinking by analogy, correlation, imaginative simulation) from philosophy, without denying their indispensability in the conduct of life. The central argument of Unreason Within Reason is that it is this endeavour to detach the logical from other kinds of thinking which has led to the present crisis of rationality, in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812691679
• ISBN13: 9780812691672
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"