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“The Assault on Reason: The Trajectory of Irrationalism from Schelling to Hitler,” published in 1954, is George Lukács’ most passionate and discussed work; It is an analysis of the irrationalist currents of modern philosophy from the point of view of their relations with the involution of bourgeois power to the abandonment of democratic ideals and the open recourse to the respective governments for the violence of Nazism and fascism. Despite the criticisms made of his work, no one can fail to recognize the vital energy and intellectual depth with which Lukács develops his basic thesis. The original title, in German, means, in good translation, unequivocally and categorically, not “the assault”, but “the destruction” of reason.
The pious intention of the editors to mitigate such a strong expression, perhaps unintentionally, diverted the scope that Lukács wanted to give it, for whom the trajectory of irrationalism of the time he describes had the unprecedented effect of destroying reason and brutally reifying the humanism in those moments that it analyzes; After all, it is not man's consciousness that determines his being, how he is, how he Belgium Mobile Number List behaves, but, on the contrary, his social existence and how he behaves is what determines his consciousness. . Lukács strives to demonstrate that the development of irrationalism is not an essential and immanent response, as if the emergence of problems or their solution were a consequence of a deterministic destiny ("the necessity" of Jacques Monod), he calls him as a philosopher, a necessarily dialectical force or movement , but the consequence of certain ideologies and political projects, which are accepted, almost unconsciously, until reaching inevitable destruction: extermination.
But, in order not to fall into a deterministic pessimism, in Heideggerian terminology “we can run to find the possibility of stopping it . ” To stop the irrationality of such logic, we cannot use the “ostrich” paradigm, that resource of denying or ignoring what may come and once it has happened, deplore it like mourners”, but rather use the means that we have at our disposal: “run to meet the possibilities” that we have in the present moment: “go to vote; “The vote is in our hands . One cannot ignore the possibility that the Popular Party, Mrs. Ayuso's party that, as in a "carnival" has put on the mask of "freedom" , can govern the Community of Madrid with the support of Vox. Managing a political project in a Community like Madrid does not mean distracting the electorate with “empty self-confidence” and simplicity, such as “living like a Madrid woman, much less with that vulgar and obvious slogan that she continually announces like an Agustina, not from Aragón but from Madrid: “I will always defend the freedom of Madrid against attacks.
The pious intention of the editors to mitigate such a strong expression, perhaps unintentionally, diverted the scope that Lukács wanted to give it, for whom the trajectory of irrationalism of the time he describes had the unprecedented effect of destroying reason and brutally reifying the humanism in those moments that it analyzes; After all, it is not man's consciousness that determines his being, how he is, how he Belgium Mobile Number List behaves, but, on the contrary, his social existence and how he behaves is what determines his consciousness. . Lukács strives to demonstrate that the development of irrationalism is not an essential and immanent response, as if the emergence of problems or their solution were a consequence of a deterministic destiny ("the necessity" of Jacques Monod), he calls him as a philosopher, a necessarily dialectical force or movement , but the consequence of certain ideologies and political projects, which are accepted, almost unconsciously, until reaching inevitable destruction: extermination.
But, in order not to fall into a deterministic pessimism, in Heideggerian terminology “we can run to find the possibility of stopping it . ” To stop the irrationality of such logic, we cannot use the “ostrich” paradigm, that resource of denying or ignoring what may come and once it has happened, deplore it like mourners”, but rather use the means that we have at our disposal: “run to meet the possibilities” that we have in the present moment: “go to vote; “The vote is in our hands . One cannot ignore the possibility that the Popular Party, Mrs. Ayuso's party that, as in a "carnival" has put on the mask of "freedom" , can govern the Community of Madrid with the support of Vox. Managing a political project in a Community like Madrid does not mean distracting the electorate with “empty self-confidence” and simplicity, such as “living like a Madrid woman, much less with that vulgar and obvious slogan that she continually announces like an Agustina, not from Aragón but from Madrid: “I will always defend the freedom of Madrid against attacks.
