The reckless mind : intellectuals in politics /
Lilla, Mark.
The reckless mind : intellectuals in politics / - New York, New York Review of Books, ©2001 - xiii, 216 pages ; 23 cm - New York Review books .
Includes bibliographical references
Martin Heidegger -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Jaspers -- Carl Schmitt -- Walter Benjamin -- Alexandre Kojève -- Michel Foucault -- Jacques Derrida -- The lure of Syracuse
"In 1953 Czeslaw Milosz published The Captive Mind, his classic study of how intellectuals in postwar Eastern Europe were tempted to collaborate with the Communist system under which they lived. But they were hardly unique. 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." "How can intellectuals, who should be most alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the liberal ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How can they take political 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 the convulsions of the twentieth century shaped the political sensibilities of important thinkers who were so deluded by the ideologies of the time that they closed their eyes to brutality, coercion, and state terror."--Jacket
0940322765 9780940322769 9781681371160 1681371162 1590170717 9781590170717
2001001857
Intellectuals--History--Europe--20th century
Totalitarianism--History--20th century
Europe--Intellectual life--20th century.
Philosophy Intellectual life Political ideologies Biography Overseas item History, 1901-1999
History.
HM728 / .L55 2001
305.5/52/094
000109191
The reckless mind : intellectuals in politics / - New York, New York Review of Books, ©2001 - xiii, 216 pages ; 23 cm - New York Review books .
Includes bibliographical references
Martin Heidegger -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Jaspers -- Carl Schmitt -- Walter Benjamin -- Alexandre Kojève -- Michel Foucault -- Jacques Derrida -- The lure of Syracuse
"In 1953 Czeslaw Milosz published The Captive Mind, his classic study of how intellectuals in postwar Eastern Europe were tempted to collaborate with the Communist system under which they lived. But they were hardly unique. 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." "How can intellectuals, who should be most alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the liberal ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How can they take political 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 the convulsions of the twentieth century shaped the political sensibilities of important thinkers who were so deluded by the ideologies of the time that they closed their eyes to brutality, coercion, and state terror."--Jacket
0940322765 9780940322769 9781681371160 1681371162 1590170717 9781590170717
2001001857
Intellectuals--History--Europe--20th century
Totalitarianism--History--20th century
Europe--Intellectual life--20th century.
Philosophy Intellectual life Political ideologies Biography Overseas item History, 1901-1999
History.
HM728 / .L55 2001
305.5/52/094
000109191