1. Introduction2. Conservatism and Social Criticism: Pascal on Faith, Reason, and Politics3. Giambattista Vico and Democratic Pluralism: Lessons for Deliberative Democracy4. A Modest Spinozist: George Eliot and the Limits of Rationalism5. Projections Upon the Void: Irving Babbitt's Critique of Naturalism6. Carl Schmitt's Exceptional Critique of Rationalism7. Moral Man in a Morally Irrational World: Max Weber and the Limits of Reason8. The Moral Personality of Mikhail Bulgakov9. Nec Spe Nec Metu: Philosophic Catharsis in Karl Löwith's Meaning in History10. Metaphor, Meaning, and Mind: Knowledge and Imagination in Owen Barfield11. Rings and Rationalism: Tolkien's Tales Against Domination12. Shedding the Shackles of Rationalism13. Beautiful Minds: Gregory Bateson on Ecology, Insanity, and Wisdom14. Robert Nisbet: Art, History, and the Anti-Rationalism of Sociological Methodology15. Elizabeth Anscombe on Rationalism16. A.C. Graham on Rationalism, Irrationalism, and Anti-Rationalism ("Aware Spontaneity")17. Intention, Intellect, and Imagination: Stuart Hampshire's Pluralism18. Rationality and Tradition in Roger Scruton's Thought19. A Counter-Enlightenment of the Present: A Defense of John Grays' Modus Vivendi Liberalism