Unreason  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monstersis a 1799 print by Goya from the Caprichos series. It is the image the sleeping artist surrounded by the winged ghoulies and beasties unleashed by unreason.

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing (c.1887) by Odilon Redon, a phrase from the Pensées (1669) by Blaise Pascal

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1. Irrationality.
2. Lack of rationality.

Further reading

• The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (2004) - Richard Wolin
• The Destruction of Reason (1952) - Georg Lukacs

See also

• Counter-Enlightenment
• Absurd
• Illogical