The legacy of the irrationalists for the twentieth century included four key themes: 1. An agreement with Kant that reason is impotent to know reality; 2. an agreement with Hegel that reality is deeply conflictual and/or absurd; 3. a conclusion that reason is therefore trumped by claims based on feeling, instinct, or leaps of faith; and 4. that the non-rational and the irrational yield deep truths about reality.
