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 ...
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
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Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1994).
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0 有用 想本雅明迟了迟 2016-07-24 22:47:28
嘲讽技全开，一支健笔清楚明白地讲清楚了谁是谁的问题。（还是要感叹一句：杨奎松抄书技能真是突破天际。）