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What does irrationalism mean?

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Noun
  1. A philosophical movement formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
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In a brilliant insight, Furedi claims that this instrumental downgrading of knowledge is just the flip side of postmodern irrationalism.
In this sense, perhaps the best way to fight irrationalism is by promoting rationalism.
It is time secular and self-proclaimed leftist intellectuals called off their romance with irrationalism and romanticism.
Unlike his contemporary American Minimalist Donald Judd, Arico sustained a kind of irrationalism, an anti-symmetry.
By extending naturalism even to his own mind and soul, the materialist ends up sliding into his own morass of irrationalism and superstition.
The decline of Newton's reputation tracks the rise of irrationalism among Western literati.

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