Gene Callahan

Studies on Rationalism

“Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.”

Michael Oakeshott
Blake's Newton: a nude figure crouched on a rock at the bottom of the sea, bent over a scroll, measuring with a pair of compasses
William Blake, Newton, c. 1795–1805 Tate, London. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Edited Volumes

Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Burke, Tocqueville, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Eliot, Wittgenstein, Oakeshott, Hayek, and more. Published by Palgrave. Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited Pascal, Vico, Dostoevsky, Weber, Tolkien, Anscombe, Scruton, Gray, and more.

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