The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition Lilla MarkPaperback
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition Lilla MarkPaperback European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or…
Specifikacia The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition Lilla MarkPaperback
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition Lilla MarkPaperback
European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How could intellectuals whose work depends on freedom defend those who would deny it?In profiles of six leading twentieth-century thinkers--Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Alexandre Kojeve, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida--Mark Lilla explores the psychology of political commitment. How was this possible?
Lilla shows how these thinkers were not only grappling with enduring philosophical questions, they were also writing out of their own experiences and passions. As continental Europe gave birth to two great ideological systems in the twentieth century, communism and fascism, it also gave birth to a new social type, the philotyrannical intellectual. These profiles demonstrate how intellectuals can be driven into