Reason and Culture: The Historic Role of Rationality and Rationalism.

1. Reason and Culture: The Legacy of Descartes 2. The Roots of Compulsion: The Legacy of Durkheim 3. The Confrontations of Reason: The Heirs of Descartes 4. The Mundane Enemies of Reason: From Hegel to Freud 5. Ailments of Reason: The Descent from Popper 6. Counter Currents: Some Consequences of Wittgenstein 7. Rationality as a way of life: Reason and the Emergence of Modern Society 8. Prometheus Perplexed: Rationality and Subjectivity 9. Recapitulation.