Éditeur : PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN papier: 9780691178677
Parution : 2019
Code produit : 1378927
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Sciences humaines /
Philosophie /
Philosophie
Format | Qté. disp. | Prix* | Commander |
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Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 35,72 $ Prix non-membre : 39,69 $ |
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Rich and ambitious, Irrationality ranges across philosophy, politics, and current events. Challenging conventional thinking about logic, natural reason, dreams, art and science, pseudoscience, the Enlightenment, the internet, jokes and lies, and death, the book shows how history reveals that any triumph of reason is temporary and reversible, and that rational schemes, notably including many from Silicon Valley, often result in their polar opposite. The problem is that the rational gives birth to the irrational and vice versa in an endless cycle, and any effort to permanently set things in order sooner or later ends in an explosion of unreason. Because of this, it is irrational to try to eliminate irrationality. For better or worse, it is an ineradicable feature of life.