{"product_id":"9781681371160","title":"The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition","description":"Author: Lilla, Mark \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781681371160 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2016 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 248 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 209mm x 141mm x 13mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescripition: \u003cbr\u003eMark Lilla's celebrated collection of essays exploring the role of philosophers in political life, now with a new afterword by the author, will be releasing simultaneously with Lilla's new collection \u003ci\u003eThe Shipwrecked Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, also forthcoming from New York Review Books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEuropean 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45313804009630,"sku":"UBD-9781681371160","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781681371160.jpg?v=1744167618","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781681371160","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}