Irrationalism

Nietzche and Freud

-rejects the ideas of enlightenment, rationalism, general progress, universal values, and democracy

-19th/20th century Europe

-asserts subconcious drives- driven by impulse, instinct, or feeling

-ties into imperialmism, rascism, and decline of liberalism

-philosphical movement

-claimed to enrich the apprehension of human life by expanding it beyond rationalism