260917: Revolt Against Reason
The late 19th and 20th centuries are host to a series of revolts against Reason (wheretofore, the dominant modernizing & reorganizational strategy of Western life).
Can we name them?
- Jane Jacobs' critique of modern urban planning.
- James C. Scott's critique of high modernism.
- Hayek's critique of centralized economics, and his defense of ecological and decentralized computation.
- Wittgenstein's internal demolition of philosophical positivism.
- American pragmatists' revolt against Platonism and formalism.
- The sociology of science; Thomas Kuhn's paradigm; the messy monkey-means of truth-making.
- Social construction and social reality; the self-fulfilling quality of abstraction.
- Chesterton's fence, articulating the risks of rationally reforming complex systems.
- Complexity science broadly, as established at the Santa Fe Institute.
...And many more, including feminist and post-colonial theory, indigenous ways of knowing, tacit knowledge studies and ethnomethodology, 21st C meta-rationalism...