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- Book Title
- Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics : Revised Edition
- Publication Name
- The Reckless Mind
- Title
- The Reckless Mind
- Subtitle
- Revised Edition
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1681371162
- EAN
- 9781681371160
- ISBN
- 9781681371160
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Philosophy, Political Science
- Release Date
- 06/09/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 10.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Topic
- Political, Essays, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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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 was this possible? 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 Koj ve, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida-Mark Lilla explores the psychology of political commitment. 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. Lilla shows how these thinkers were not only grappling with enduring philosophical questions, they were also writing out of their own experiences and passions. These profiles demonstrate how intellectuals can be driven into a political sphere they scarcely understand, with momentous results. In a new afterword, Lilla traces how the intellectual world has changed since the end of the cold war. The ideological passions of the past have been replaced in the West, he argues, by a dogma of individual autonomy and freedom that both obscures the historical forces at work in the present and sanctions ignorance about them, leaving us ill-equipped to understand those who are inflamed by the new global ideologies of our time.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681371162
ISBN-13
9781681371160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229573766
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics : Revised Edition
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political, Essays, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
10.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hm728.L55 2001
Reviews
"This is important. Lilla's short, elegant and readable book is about what happens when philosophers get tangled up in the real world. It is also a matter of recognizing that the world is in the shape that it is because of the influence of the most rarefied of minds." --Nicolas Lezard, The Guardian , Paperback of the Week "Lilla's accessible, summary look at eight 20th-century thinkers is a compilation of cautionary tales...shrewd advice...a very canny book showing us how not to think and chew politics at the same time." -- Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer "As Mr. Lilla ably shows, what is common to these thinkers is a rejection of political philosophy. They deny the possibility of a patient, sober and rational exploration of political possibilities. And even when they become disillusioned with specific tyrants--Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Khomeini--they continue to reject political moderation and balanced analysis." --Daniel J. Mahoney, The Wall Street Journal "'Lilla has a gift for nimble exposition, and each study in his collection is illuminating, often revelatory,' Sunil Khilnani wrote here in 2002." -- The New York Times Book Review, "The essays that make up Mark Lilla's book . . . are driven by his sense of disappointment, a lover's kind of disappointment, that such profound and influential minds should have been so politically insouciant when confronted by the hectic barbarity of the 20th century. . . . Lilla has a gift for nimble exposition, and each study in his collection is illuminating, often revelatory." -- The New York Times Book Review "Mark Lilla is today the leading intellectual commentator in the United States on European thinkers and ideas. . . . He understands them better than they are understood in their own countries. And often better than they understand themselves." -- Die Zeit "This is important. Lilla's short, elegant and readable book is about what happens when philosophers get tangled up in the real world. It is also a matter of recognizing that the world is in the shape that it is because of the influence of the most rarefied of minds." --Nicolas Lezard, The Guardian , Paperback of the Week "Lilla's accessible, summary look at eight 20th-century thinkers is a compilation of cautionary tales...shrewd advice...a very canny book showing us how not to think and chew politics at the same time." -- Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer "As Mr. Lilla ably shows, what is common to these thinkers is a rejection of political philosophy. They deny the possibility of a patient, sober and rational exploration of political possibilities. And even when they become disillusioned with specific tyrants--Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Khomeini--they continue to reject political moderation and balanced analysis." --Daniel J. Mahoney, The Wall Street Journal "'Lilla has a gift for nimble exposition, and each study in his collection is illuminating, often revelatory,' Sunil Khilnani wrote here in 2002." -- The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
2001-001857
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