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  • I spoke a while ago of its being an "irrationalistic" philosophy in its latest phase.

    Memories and Studies William James 1876

  • Eastern versus Western, optimistic versus pessimistic, theistic versus atheistic, rationalistic versus irrationalistic, monistic versus pluralistic, and many others.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • But Kleist was "romantic" and irrationalistic in too profound a sense to have needed to make such concessions to literary convention.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • But Kleist was "romantic" and irrationalistic in too profound a sense to have needed to make such concessions to literary convention.

    Grimm, Kleist, Details, and Belief 2005

  • While German academic philosophy was dominated by neo-Kantianism, certain philosophies of life were being developed along lines that were irrationalistic in character.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN WAHL 1968

  • But we need not conclude on such an irrationalistic note.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Generally, however, in the France of the early twentieth century irrationalistic tendencies were vic - torious: Bergson became the philosopher inspiring, e.g., the theory of criticism in Albert Thibaudet

    LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

  • That brings us to the question of knowing in what sense it may be said that psychoanalysis and Marxism are irrationalistic.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN WAHL 1968

  • Certainly Heidegger was always an arch-conservative thinker veering toward the rechts-radikal, and there is a deep strain of a reactionary, irrationalistic, elitist cult of sacrifice built into his thought.

    University Diaries 2009

  • Certainly Heidegger was always an arch-conservative thinker veering toward the rechts-radikal, and there is a deep strain of a reactionary, irrationalistic, elitist cult of sacrifice built into his thought.

    University Diaries 2009

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