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This audiobook narrated by Jeff Harding reveals the surprising ways the pursuit of rationality leads to an explosion of irrationality
It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value. Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal.” But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today—from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump—Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite. From sex and music to religion and war, irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history.
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.
Illuminating unreason at a moment when the world appears to have gone mad again, Irrationality is fascinating, provocative, and timely.
© 2019 Princeton University Press (Аудиокнига): 9780691193472
© 2020 Princeton University Press (Е-книга): 9780691210827
Дата на публикуване
Аудиокнига: 2 април 2019 г.
Е-книга: 1 декември 2020 г.
3.8
Документални
This audiobook narrated by Jeff Harding reveals the surprising ways the pursuit of rationality leads to an explosion of irrationality
It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value. Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal.” But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today—from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump—Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite. From sex and music to religion and war, irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history.
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.
Illuminating unreason at a moment when the world appears to have gone mad again, Irrationality is fascinating, provocative, and timely.
© 2019 Princeton University Press (Аудиокнига): 9780691193472
© 2020 Princeton University Press (Е-книга): 9780691210827
Дата на публикуване
Аудиокнига: 2 април 2019 г.
Е-книга: 1 декември 2020 г.
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Супер разочарован! На хората на които препоръчах тази книга - НЕ Я ЧЕТЕТЕ, загуба на време е.Цялата книга беше - get to the f*** point! И накрая взе че свърши..Авторът е философ - стерилен човек, изглежда без особен опит с истински хора и като цяло безполезен тип, който обаче вероятно се има за велик и всезнаещ.Изумен съм от ЛИПСАТА на дълбочина на проучването му на хората които коментира, общо взето Майло, Джордън Питърсън са кажи речи неонацисти, също като и Тръмп, ама Тръмп също така е имного глупав и некомпетентен.Фактът, че спомена измамата в Шарлетсвил, където Тръмп бил казал че нацистите са fine people - КОЕТО Е АБСОЛЮТНА ЛЪЖА, СЪТВОРЕНА ОТ МЕДИИТЕ (В интервюто буквално казва - fine people - КАЗВА - НЕ ГОВОРЯ ЗА НЕОНАЦИСТИТЕ - ТЯХ ГИ ОСЪЖДАМ ТОТАЛНО - (condemned totally)Трябваше да ме накара да спра дотам и да затворя книгата.Таквиа хора не могат да ви научат на нищо, защото самите те НЕ МОГАТ НИЩО. Дървени философи, мързеливи да направят един адекватен рисърч.
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