...Although Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason fell from favor as interest in existentialism and Marxism faded, Sartre claimed CDR was a formal, a priori theory of collective and individual agency. In it, he brought to bear an appreciation of Hegel, an appropriation of one...

... “Phoney War” (the period from September 1939 to May 1940) as well as the London Blitz. Yet despite the conflict, he was able to connect with other intellectuals. The chapter also sees Hayek begin the writing phase of his 1940 project, to be titled “The Abuse and Decline of Reason.” Chamberlain Neville...

... given sensuous intuition, and also as a prospective commitment (rather than a known capacity) to make judgments from rather than merely according to reason. A naturecultural account of discursive practices revises this understanding of human finitude to involve discursive practices and their social...

... rasa metaphor possessed dimensionality and that, within domestic, educational, and commercial settings, the material components of notebooks made it easier for learners to understand the mind as a kinaesthetically constructed entity and reason as an ongoing activity. It moves on to rearticulate...

...In this chapter, Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza are shown to link the function of reason with the body of the organism. If the bodies are automata, reason is an instrument of existential survival. Spinoza goes further in his epistemology, arguing that intuition is a faculty linked to the self...

... the gaps between action and contemplation, emotion and reason, and body and soul, offering new ways of thinking about language and the limits of representation....

...This book is about understanding the Enlightenment—or to use one parallel term among many, the Age of Reason—geographically. It is, in several senses, an argument about and extended review of the Enlightenment's “where,” about how one may “place” the Enlightenment, and about why it matters that one...

...Reason identifies Amant's shortcomings as an error of interpretation, and, through her references to pedagogy and literacy, Jean invites his own readers to interpret the sense underlying the “fable occure” of Saturn that he has made her recount. As observed previously, Reason introduces the fable...

...The object of fear is the loss of the meaning of life. It threatens if our evaluative framework is called into question. This chapter is about the prudent strategy for coping with this fear. A reasonable strategy is exemplified by the cases of the Azande, the Kalabari, Montaigne, Descartes...

... sharply, calling this “archaeology of nature” a “daring adventure of reason” that risked stepping beyond human limits. This retreat, culminating in his third Critique, emerged in his controversies with Herder and Forster over natural history. Notwithstanding the influential Lenoir thesis about...

... misunderstood as simply negative. It shows a tension between two images of reason to be found in the Architectonic: reason as a seed from which an organism grows internally as a systematically articulated unity, and reason as an architect who plans the edifice of reason’s laws. This tension reflects the two...

... Kant relentlessly tends to recast the interrelation of faculties that together constitute reason. A good illustration of this shift is a comparative analysis of the A and B Prefaces to the first Critique. An even more telling shift is the redefinition of the role of ideas with regard to morality...

...The book is a full-fledged examination of Kant on reason. Reason is about a comprehensive vision that understands itself (from sciences and cognitions to action to all objects of its legislation) in relation to its ends. A rigorous analysis of the different meanings of key concepts throughout...

... jurisprudence in three steps. It shows, first, that citizen jurisprudence presupposes a certain publicity or public use of reason. Second, it shows how a particular capacity for being acted upon, or a passibility, corresponds essentially to this judging activity. Third, it shows how citizen jurisprudence comes...

...This book examines what it means to be human by means of an atlas and initiates a critique of cartographical reason. It begins with the calibration of the surveying instruments and with the establishment of the fix-points and base-lines that are used in the mappings of what it means to be human...

... of “academic friendship.” Situated within a broadly Aristotelian theory of friendship, the academic friendship between professor and student is said to identify, among other things, the following aims of teaching: encourage students to be moved by the authority of reason, expand their imaginative capacities...

...This chapter discusses the relations between appetite, reason, and health. The topic focuses on the experiences of philosophers and literate consumers. It demonstrates how various models of food, eating, and the body were affected by chemical, mechanical, and vital accounts of health. It tackles...

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... legalities (“reason”) and a need for unrestrained sovereign power (“will”). The chapter lays out this opposition as foundational to both liberal sovereignty and modernist imaginaries of human nature. With the arrival of Haitian refugees on US shores and the legal battles that ensued, the fight to subject...

... notion of autonomy, showing how in adopting this notion, agents undermine their capacities for practical reasoning and thereby their very standing as agents. Third, it is shown that the dialectic of enlightenment is based on Kant’s notion of dialectic in the Critique of Pure Reason...