One myth of dialectics of ecological crisis is associated with animal
irrationalism, with apologetics of political violence.
India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, argued that unlike religion - which tends to produce "intolerance, credulity and superstition, emotionalism and
irrationalism" and "a temper of a dependent, unfree person" - a scientific temper "is the temper of a free man."
For Mann, the ambitions of Keynesianism (whether narrowly economic or broadly political) are to 'save civilization' (from 'mindless
irrationalism' and 'arbitrary inequalities')--though the new knowledge that would ground an associated 'elite-civilizing project' would be 'illiberal', posing political solutions to problems revolution proved unable to dissolve (pp.66-70).
Was it the result of his usual
irrationalism, or of domestic politics?
The Freethinker attacked religion,
irrationalism, and all kinds of censorship, and did so with wit and fervor.
SHE WRITES THAT OUR "TIME OF MORAL panic" is unprecedented, "driven by secularist rather than religious
irrationalism." We are in the grip of a fever induced by an overdose of gender theory and the elevation of sexual satisfaction to a moral right and duty.
I had no control over it and the pain was building but it was not physical pain, rather a sense of
irrationalism with uncontrollable anxiety.
It is the apex of
irrationalism. It promotes and glorifies
irrationalism.
Having established Islamophobia as an undeniable fact, the Republican presidential candidate has now managed to expose the profound
irrationalism of such tribalist hatreds.
If violence and
irrationalism is a strength, I don't have it, I still regret killing that rat.
Facets of Russian
Irrationalism Between Art and Life: Mystery Inside Enigma
The carnage at the BKU and earlier at the Army School in Peshawar is a reminder that
irrationalism is seeping in and needs to be repulsed.