The Reckless Mind

副标题: Intellectuals in Politics

ISBN: 9781590170717

出版社: New York Review Books

出版年: 2003-8-31

页数: 236

定价: USD 17.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.

作者简介

马克?里拉(Mark Lilla)，美国芝加哥大学社会思想委员会教授，欧洲思想史学者，被誉为美国自由主义阵营的一支健笔。作为公共知识分子的他在欧美具有相当的知名度和影响力，著有《Ｇ.Ｂ.维科：一个反现代者的形成》(1993)，编有《新法兰西思想：政治哲学》(1994)，《伯林的遗产》(2001)。

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