 In "The Ominous Parallels" (1982), the Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff presented "Irrational Man" as an example of a prominent philosopher endorsing irrationality, citing Barrett's comments about Dada.The philosopher Jon Stewart accused Barrett of caricaturing, and propagating myths about, Hegel.Stewart deemed Barrett guilty of misrepresenting Hegel as a "cosmic rationalist" who, like the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and some romantics, believed in a metaphysical world soul.