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"John Roberts’ The Reasoning of Unreason impressively shows how a contemporary critique of oppression must proceed: It must understand oppression in its own rationality. Roberts therefore analyzes in detail and with a broad historical perspective how the regimes of oppression think – how they reason against reason. Oppression thus becomes recognizable as the oppression of thinking itself: of its emancipatory power of radical universality. A remarkable example of Marx's ""true philosophical criticism."" -- Christoph Menke, Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Where standard left critiques of reactionary politics view these as symptoms of irrational attachments, John Roberts shows how reactionaries lay claim to a universal reason to legitimize differences of race, culture, class, and caste. Robert's book is not only a brilliant analysis, but also a timely reminder that today's most urgent political contrast is not between universalism and particularism but between a reactionary reason dedicated to shoring up limits and an emancipatory reason working to undo them. -- Ray Brassier, Professor of Philosophy, American University of Beirut, Lebanon"

John Roberts' The Reasoning of Unreason impressively shows how a contemporary critique of oppression must proceed: It must understand oppression in its own rationality. Roberts therefore analyzes in detail and with a broad historical perspective how the regimes of oppression think - how they reason against reason. Oppression thus becomes recognizable as the oppression of thinking itself: of its emancipatory power of radical universality. A remarkable example of Marx's true philosophical criticism. -- Christoph Menke, Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Where standard left critiques of reactionary politics view these as symptoms of irrational attachments, John Roberts shows how reactionaries lay claim to a universal reason to legitimize differences of race, culture, class, and caste. Robert's book is not only a brilliant analysis, but also a timely reminder that today's most urgent political contrast is not between universalism and particularism but between a reactionary reason dedicated to shoring up limits and an emancipatory reason working to undo them. -- Ray Brassier, Professor of Philosophy, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

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John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His books include The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday, The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday, and The Necessity of Errors. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine.

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