Nevertheless, with the waning of confidence that science itself will generate wisdom, the last several decades have witnessed a partial swing back toward a Romantic sensibility, in movements like existentialism, spiritualism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism, with all their offshoots. The common thread running through all these movements is a belief that rationality and objectivity, although good and useful for many purposes, may not be the exclusive or even the best route to engaging our world. This has particular relevance for the question of what brings another person alive for us as an object of love and desire.