{"product_id":"9781350151000","title":"Reasoning of Unreason Universalism, Capitalism and Disenlightenment","description":"\u003ch1\u003eReasoning of Unreason\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eUniversalism, Capitalism and Disenlightenment\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Political\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twenty-first century so far has seen the global rise of authoritarian populism, systematic racism, and dogmatic metaphysics. Even though these events demonstrate the growth of an age of 'unreason', in this original and compelling book John Roberts resists the assumption that such thinking displays an unthinking irrationality or loss of reason; instead he asserts that an important feature of modern reactionary politics is that it offers a supposedly convincing integration of the particular and the universal. This move is defined by what Roberts calls the 'reasoning of unreason' and has deep roots in the history of Western thought and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing the dark history of enlightenment-disenlightenment, John Roberts explores 'the reasoning of unreason' across centuries from Aquinas, William of Ockham, the most important treatise on witchcraft \u003ci\u003eMalleus Maleficarum\u003c\/i\u003e, Locke, Kant, and Count Arthur de Gobineau, to Social Darwinism, Nazism, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and Friedrich von Hayek. Roberts provides a new set of philosophical-political tools to understand the formation and denigration of the rational subject and the current reinvestment in various forms of political unreason globally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Reasoning of Unreason\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to draw on the philosophy of reason, political philosophy, political theory and political history, in order to produce a dialectical account of the 'making of reason' internal to the forces of unreason and the limits of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJohn Roberts \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Philistine Controversy\u003c\/i\u003e (with Dave Beech),\u003ci\u003e Philosophizing the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a contributor to \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThird Text\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 February 2020\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350151000\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14.24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332764926092,"sku":"9781350151000","price":42.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_73459392-a061-4440-b8b8-85a0006327b1.jpg?v=1783605585","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350151000","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}