The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Reckless Mind 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, impl...
Full description- Publisher: New York Review of Books Collections
- Published: 09 September 2003
- Format: Paperback 236 pages
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- Categories: Political Science & Theory | Political Ideologies | Fascism & Nazism | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Social & Political Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9781590170717 ISBN 10: 1590170717
- Sales rank: 352,502
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Full description for The Reckless Mind
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.
