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The study of reason and rationality using the methods of Sovietology/Kremlinology: examining official discourses, institutional practices, and textual clues to understand how “rationality” is socially constructed, maintained, and weaponized. Rationalology investigates who is authorized to speak rationally, what counts as a good reason, and how rationality standards change across contexts. It treats rationality not as a transcendent faculty but as a set of historically situated practices that serve social functions: gatekeeping, exclusion, legitimation. By analyzing the hidden architecture of rational discourse, rationalology reveals the interests and power relations embedded in what we take as “just common sense.”
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