Mishima's novel fills in the outlines of this story dramatically, surrounding the demented arsonist, whom he calls Mizoguchi, with twisted characters embodying the triumph of unreason in Japan during the war and after its defeat.
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The aim of the work was to reform Protestant theology, to put an end to the unreason and superficiality of both supernaturalism and rationalism, and to deliver religion and theology from dependence on perpetually changing systems of philosophy.
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One of the building's defining features is its frontal sculpture, " Bellerophon Taming Pegasus ", designed by Jacques Lipchitz, symbolizing man's struggle over ( his own ) wild side / unreason.
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They were viewed as having freely chosen prostitution, vagrancy, blasphemy, unreason, etc . and the regimes of these new rational institutions were meticulous programs of punishment and reward aimed at causing them to reverse those choices.
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That was the novelty : the right not to be right, not to be reasonable :'the reason of unreason .'" ( Chapter 8 : Why the Masses Intervene in Everything and Why They Always Intervene Violently)
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The song explores Enlightenment themes, contrasting the rationalism of the Victorian era to a coming'age of unreason'. " The Underfall Yard " was initially inspired by Richard Fortey's " The Hidden Landscape ".
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But fortunately, and thanks largely to Fiennes, Jennifer Ehle and Rosemary Harris, the film pulls away from such obviousness and views the lethal unreason of the past hundred years with gravity, humor and, most remarkably, with something like sanity.
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The final chapter summarizes the book, ending with a warning about the dangers of the environmental movement, calling it " the new religion of eco-fundamentalism " and claiming that " we appear to have entered a new age of unreason ."
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And he is also preparing to face down the father of the girl he has loved since childhood, a locally feared ( and wealthy ) man who hates David with particular unreason and has vowed to keep his daughter from him, violently if need be.
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In " The Age of American Unreason " ( 2008 ) Jacoby contends that the dumbing down of America, which she describes as " a virulent mixture of anti-rationalism and low expectations ", is more a permanent state than a temporary one
