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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Preamble. A Mathematician’s Murder
Introduction
Reason’s Twin
Enlightenment into Myth
The Present Moment
Irrationality: A Road Map
Chapter One. The Self-Devouring Octopus; or, Logic
The Operation of Falsity
Explosions
Kaspar Hauser and the Limits of Rational Choice
Carrying On about the Ineffable
Chapter Two. “No-Brainers”; or, Reason in Nature
An Ordered Whole
Brute Beasts
An Imperfect Superpower
Small Pain Points
Chapter Three. The Sleep of Reason; or, Dreams
Upon Awakening
Breaking the Law
Spirits, Vapors, Winds
Hearing Voices
Bitter Little Embryos
Postscriptum Fabulosum
Chapter Four. Dreams into Things; or, Art
Many Worlds
Bleeding Out
Genies, Genius, and Ingenium
What Is Art?
The Two Magisteria
Chapter Five. “I believe because it is absurd”; or, Pseudoscience
The Stars Down to Earth
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom
Alternative Facts, and Alternatives to Facts
The Paranoid Style in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter Six. Enlightenment; or, Myth
Better the Light
The World-Soul on Horseback
Poetic History
Enlightenment into Myth, Again
Why Democracy?
Chapter Seven. The Human Beast; or, the Internet
An Escargotic Commotion
The Modern Shiva
Nothing Human Is Alien
More Gender Trouble
An Age of Extremes
Chapter Eight. Explosions; or, Jokes and Lies
Into Nothing
Charlie Hebdo and After
Pseudologia Generalis
Croaking
Chapter Nine. The Impossible Syllogism; or, Death
“In the long run we are all dead”
Radical Choices
Youth and Risk
The Impossible Syllogism
Tie Me Up
Cargo Cults
In Loving Repetition
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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