Translation of "Irrationalism" in German

There are notes of irrationalism and anxiety.

In other passages of the book Lukacs spreads his web of "irrationalism" too wide.

Because of its essential irrationalism Whitehead has attacked positivism as treason to philosophy and science alike.

Without doubt, irrationalism and fanaticism are the main obstacles both to the emancipation of women and to social and economic progress in general in these countries.

If America can move from a culture of fear to one of hope – and again incarnate hope for the world – it will require a leader who embodies the American dream: modern and armed with a humanistic religious message, in contrast to the anxious irrationalism of the Christian conservative movement that fueled Bush’s political base.

The battle between the world views grew stronger, because the victory of socialism in Russia, and hence the dissemination of the historic-dialectic materialism, beset the irrationalism.

Blowing through schoolhouses and driving out the ghosts of irrationalism, intolerance and oppression, it takes a dark and heavy burden from many a tiny shoulder.

The choice of autonomy implies that the institution of society is not based on any kind of irrationalism (faith in God, mystical beliefs, etc.), as well as on 'objective truths' about social evolution grounded on social or natural 'laws'.

But this is not the case by any means – irrationalism in modern art is in fact a negative reaction to thought processes and findings in art and architecture, analogous to the German romantic movement of the nineteenth century, which turned out to be no more than a reaction against the findings of encyclopaedists and the heritage of the French Revolution in 1792.

And although numerous exponents of the Vienna Circle and the association founded in 1929 by Ernst Mach, who represented a radical anti-metaphysics20 – an epistemological position that Broch resolutely opposed – were employed at the adult education centres, which were underpinned by the social democratic municipal administration, the basic stance against the encroaching irrationalism as well as the collective work for social reform in terms of educating the people by getting in contact with the “living movements of the present“21, as it was stated in the program of the Vienna Circle (1929), completely agreed with the intentions of Broch’s cultural policy and humanitarian engagement.

Another important issue that arises once scientism/objectivism is rejected is how we can avoid the retreat to the various types of irrationalism that currently abound in the Green movement (e.g. deep ecology), the feminist movement (some versions of eco-feminism) and so on.

Lipstadt castigates Holocaust revisionism as "the apotheosis of irrationalism" and "a threat to all who believe in the ultimate power of reason" (p.

Elements of mysticism and irrationalism, contained in the teachings of Taoist, gradually led to the division of Taoism in II-III centuries.

The initial findings are only a hint of what is to come. The stunning confirmation of phenomena theoretically predicted 100 years ago stands starkly at odds with the incessant contemporary glorification of irrationalism, whether through the cultivation of backwardness and religious prejudice or the promotion of postmodernism and its rejection of objective truth.

North stressed the conflict between rationalism and irrationalism and the need to base a socialist movement on the defense of objective truth.

In other words, it is a criterion which is consistent with the view that I will develop in the next section, that the project for a democratic society can neither be grounded on scientism and objectivism nor on utopianism and irrationalism.

Further attempts, for instance one as always also philosophically constituted "irrationalism " to declare as the most important way of thinking, as Georg Lukács did it, with a great effect, can be easily falsified in a comparison with the positive political metaphysics.

Ultimately, all non-Christian philosophy starts with bold rationalistic assertions about reality and ends up in irrationalism.

Post-modernism may easily lead to general relativism and irrationalism, if not to complete abandonment of radical politics.

The realistic moment of this act was, in the new life, the political rationality of the Kádár time near Gyula Horn, who had actually a refreshing aura after the political irrationalism of the Antall era.

Broch accentuates sharply the connection of the myth claim with the prevalence of irrationalism and the myth he represented must also include the struggle against the Nazi mythology.

Aside from the specific repressive form of dominance, irrationalism still played a central role: enlightenment and science were considered modern evils, the world was respiritualised through natural-mystic and folkish-esoteric constructions of race. Pantheism was positioned as an antipode to the roman-catholic and jewish dualism.