The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics - Brossura

Lilla, Mark

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ISBN 10: 1590170717 ISBN 13: 9781590170717

Casa editrice: New York Review of Books, 2003

Riassunto

European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and jurists who, whether they lived in democratic, communist, or fascist societies, supported and defended totalitarian principles and horrific regimes. But how can intellectuals, who should be alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How can they take positions that, implicitly or not, endorse oppression and human suffering on a vast scale?

In profiles of Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Alexandre Kojeve, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, Mark Lilla demonstrates how these thinkers were so deluded by the ideologies and convulsions of their times that they closed their eyes to authoritarianism, brutality, and state terror. He shows how intellectuals who fail to master their passions can be driven into a political sphere they scarcely understand, with momentous results for our intellectual and political lives.

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L'autore:

Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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Book by Lilla Mark

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Review of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1590170717
• ISBN 13: 9781590170717
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216