{"product_id":"the-reckless-mind-intellectuals-in-politics-revised-edition-9781681371160","title":"The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition","description":"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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-204997\"\u003eMark Lilla\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681371160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681371162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI019000\"\u003ePolitical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL031000\"\u003ePolitical Ideologies | Nationalism \u0026amp; Patriotism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL032000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Lilla\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Humanities at Columbia. With New York Review Books he has published \u003ci\u003eThe Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2nd. ed., 2016), and, with Robert Silvers and Ronald Dworkin, \u003ci\u003eThe Legacy of Isaiah Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). His other books include\u003ci\u003e G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eThe Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future Liberal: On Political Reaction\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). He was the 2015 Overseas Press Club of America winner of the Best Commentary on international News in Any Medium for his New York Review series \"On France.\" Visit marklilla.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42651078656237,"sku":"9781681371160","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_632b0f5a-23ec-4569-a21f-35447a7bb827.jpg?v=1649214612","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-reckless-mind-intellectuals-in-politics-revised-edition-9781681371160","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}