The Real is Not the Rational

The Real is Not the RationalWhat is real? What is man? Beginning with these two fundamental questions, The Real is not the Rational searches back into the history of philosophy for the development of these issues. It presents selected key stages in the history of the rationalist tradition, indicating the direction in which rationalism sought what is real. The role of non rationalist tendencies within rationalism and the shift to an emphasis on the irrational in the nineteenth

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