Vienna’s fin-de-siècle ferment included an Enlightenment defence, not only irrationalism

Evidence

But there were other tendencies at work. Thus the Vienna Circle can be seen not simply as engaged in a technical philosophical exercise - the formula­ tion of the epistemological and semantic doctrines of logical positiv­ ism - but as a defence of the Enlightenment against the various forms of irrationalism that were only too visible a feature of postwar Vienna and which found expression in the clerical fascism of Dollfuss as well as in Nazism. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 203

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Marxist critique of postmodernism’s one-sided genealogy of modernism.