... depicts a world in which calculative reason has absorbed all singularity into statistical patterns of norm and deviation, splitting language and culture into impersonal scientific knowledge on the one hand and vacuous, dilettante chatter on the other. Musil's unfinished novel examines the violent fallout...

...This epilogue returns to the question of how studying the impact of digital information and communication on contemporary news journalism brings into focus a parallel legacy of digital mediation and digital thinking in anthropology. It first explores the concept of “digital reason” through Sigmund...

... in the arena of aesthetics, the chapter considers Adorno's assessment of Kant's Critique of Judgment and the importance of Kant's text for Adorno. It then looks at Adorno's lectures on the Critique of Pure Reason, along with Adorno's interest in the Critique...

...This chapter discusses Hamka’s harmonization of reason and revelation in the road to reform Southeast Asian Muslim thought. To achieve this, he marshalled a few intellectual assertions. He highlighted the problem of intellectual stagnation that was ubiquitous in Malay-Muslim societies. Hamka also...

... on the inherence of reason, in the form of mathematical ratio, within faith, and how his modern philosophy sparked new tensions between reason and faith. It then considers the three major ideas that Baruch Spinoza contributed to modern thinking about God as well as Georg Wilhelm Leibniz's...

... as well as solutions to the various challenges facing Muslims in the Malay world. Among the major themes explored in this book are questions concerning reason and revelation, moderation and extremism, social justice, the state of women in society, Sufism in the modern age as well as the importance...

...This book explores the connection between faith and reason by focusing on the death and return of God in modern German thought. It considers, in a historical context, how God can return from the death of God, how religious belief relates to what “reasonable people” might believe, how rational...

...). Erasmus and Luther also brought to the fore the opposition between “faith” and “knowledge,” or “reason” and “religion,” whether or not it can be in principle dialectically or deconstructively challenged. This chapter compares the positions of Erasmus and Luther on four major points and their implications...

...This chapter examines Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's position regarding the relationship between faith and reason. In particular, it considers how Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) thinks of the contemporary situation, including the political identity of the West, in oppositional terms. It also...

... and the power of the passions over reason. Anglomania public reaction to Freemasonry drinking in clubs and in Freemasonry archives masonic Catholic Church views on Freemasonry police crackdown on Freemasons by Freemasonry banquets in lodges Jacobites military officers in lodges Montesquieu Charles...

.... It can either tell a story or contain thoughts. As a lawyer, Kluge uses his reason; as a storyteller, he relies on the powers of his emotions. blind spots enlightenment concept of gods God Kluge on Kluge Alexander essays and dialogues Kluge Alexander literature “The Peacemaker” Kluge 2003 Dadaism...