Sentences with phrase «century irrationalism»

After serving in the Italian military, he co-founded the Scuola Metafisica, an informal school of painting that advanced a «metaphysical» agenda by subjecting Renaissance esthetic strategies to 20th - century irrationalism.

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It was their inability to attain it in the twentieth century that drove them to the kind of irrationalism that now characterizes much of science.

I share his view that the materialism and irrationalism in nineteenth - century Europe did much to corrupt Western culture.

The scale of the killing — the sheer number of bodies piled up by it — was much larger in the twentieth century, but that probably has more to do with modern weaponry than with Nietzschean irrationalism.

These four marks of the Fascist spirit» nationalism and racism, a love of violence and war, irrationalism, and revolutionary presumption» though not exhaustive, help us to understand its appeal during the first half of the twentieth century, particularly where democratic institutions were feckless and resentments bred by World War I festered.