Karl Jaspers' Theory of Irrationality

From Delusions to Worldviews

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Defending the view that Karl Jaspers’ concept of irrationality (Widervernunft) is better able to account for pathological patterns of individual and collective thinking, Karl Jaspers’ Theory of Irrationality: From Delusions to Worldviews argues that irrationality is incorrigibility, a blockage of reason as the will to communication. Highlighting the importance of freedom and creativity at the heart of reason (Vernunft), Daniel Adsett analyzes examples of delusional thought through a Jaspersian lens. He shows that irrationality arises when we hold to certain attitudes with an incorrigible conviction and refuse to genuinely consider the possibility that we might need to revise or change our beliefs. In presenting these arguments, Adsett offers a novel contribution to contemporary debates about the character of reason while rehabilitating an often neglected aspect of Jaspers’ thought.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-15
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor230
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666934281

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AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on TranslationsIntroductionChapter 1: Foundationalism, Coherentism, and the Normativity of RationalityChapter 2: Jaspers on IrrationalityChapter 3: What’s So Irrational about Delusions? – Part IChapter 4: What’s So Irrational about Delusions? – Part IIChapter 5: Irrational Worldviews: On Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and CatholicityChapter 6: Reflections and ConsiderationsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

“Karl Jaspers’ Theory of Irrationality: From Delusions to Worldviews is a substantive analysis and critique of Karl Jaspers’ theory of irrationality. The nuanced exposition and interpretation of Jaspersian irrationality engages contemporary philosophers who espouse foundationalist, coherentist and normative understandings of irrationality. Daniel Adsett engages contemporary philosophers of reason with specific reference to Jaspers’ distinction between ‘delusions proper’ and ‘delusion-like ideas’ (General Psychopathology) and convincingly argues the case for the irrationality of delusions as a form of ‘incorrigibility.’ The work teases out highly relevant implications of Jaspersian reason and irrationality for putative comprehensive reductionist worldviews that profess absolute knowledge of the individual (Psychoanalysis), world (Marxism) and God (dogmatic theology) and suggests the current-day relevance of Jaspers’ account of irrationality for contemporary political discourses and new developments of artificial intelligence. While a sympathetic reading of Jaspers’ theory of irrationality, Karl Jaspers’ Theory of Irrationalitycloses with a compelling critique of the idea of ‘the Encompassing’ and method of ‘Periechontology’ that appeals to Jaspers’ concept of ‘Foundering’ as a way to understand some of the tensive contradictions in Jaspersian philosophizing. Wide-ranging in scope, meticulous in reference, and well-written, Adsett’s book deserves a wide readership and reception.”