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“A skilled exploration of why notable 20th-century European philosophers and intellectuals — figures such as Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, among others — had at times succumbed to what [Lilla] calls ‘tyrannophilia,' a narcissistic embrace of totalitarian politics, assuming that tyrants would put their big ideas into action." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post“The essays that make up Mark Lilla’s book . . . are driven by his sense of disappointment, a lover’s kind of disappointment, that such profound and influential minds should have been so politically insouciant when confronted by the hectic barbarity of the 20th century. . . . Lilla has a gift for nimble exposition, and each study in his collection is illuminating, often revelatory.” —The New York Times Book Review“Mark Lilla is today the leading intellectual commentator in the United States on European thinkers and ideas. . . . He understands them better than they are understood in their own countries. And often better than they understand themselves.” —Die Zeit"This is important. Lilla's short, elegant and readable book is about what happens when philosophers get tangled up in the real world. It is also a matter of recognizing that the world is in the shape that it is because of the influence of the most rarefied of minds." --Nicolas Lezard, The Guardian, Paperback of the Week"Lilla's accessible, summary look at eight 20th-century thinkers is a compilation of cautionary tales...shrewd advice...a very canny book showing us how not to think and chew politics at the same time." -- Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer"As Mr. Lilla ably shows, what is common to these thinkers is a rejection of political philosophy. They deny the possibility of a patient, sober and rational exploration of political possibilities. And even when they become disillusioned with specific tyrants--Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Khomeini--they continue to reject political moderation and balanced analysis." --Daniel J. Mahoney, The Wall Street Journal"'Lilla has a gift for nimble exposition, and each study in his collection is illuminating, often revelatory,' Sunil Khilnani wrote here in 2002." -- The New York Times Book Review
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Mark Lilla is Professor of Humanities at Columbia. With New York Review Books he has published The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016), The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2nd. ed., 2016), and, with Robert Silvers and Ronald Dworkin, The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001). His other books include G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1994), The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007), and, most recently, The Once and Future Liberal: On Political Reaction (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.
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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books; Revised edition (September 6, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1681371162
ISBN-13: 978-1681371160
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Originally released a few days before September 11, 2001, Mark Lilla’s The Reckless Mind was re-released by NYRB roughly corresponding with his new book of essays on reactionary political thinking, The Shipwrecked Mind. In the intervening years, these essays feel both more and less relevant: Foucault has lasted, but the problems of his politics have been explored more completely by the left and the right. Revelations about Heidegger have been made deeper and more notedly “problematic†with the translation of the black notebooks. Derrida, the only living figure in the book when it was released, has passed and his relevance to critical theory waned incredibly quickly. Yet the essays in this collection on Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Kojève, Foucault, and Derrida are still readable and fascinating.There are, however, some puzzling indictments in this book. Lilla’s essay on the relationship between Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, and Heidegger is clear-eyed in its assignment of Heidegger’s politics, but Heidegger is not the intellectual about the which the essay concerns itself. Are Jaspers and Arendt also guilty of political recklessness? Lilla, despite the very clear-eyed focus of the essay, does not say. Walter Benjamin’s exact offense seems unknown as if Lilla thinks that flirting with Marxism was in and of itself reckless even when distancing from Soviet and Maoist forms. Is it that Benjamin was reckless in his combining messianism and recursion to Frankfurt Marxism? It hardly had political effect and Benjamin never made apologetics for regimes in the way that Schmitt, Heidegger or Foucault had done. Furthermore, while some of the digs at Derrida are apt—particularly Derrida’s highly symbolic and affective reading of Marx—again it is hard to see what the consequences are to these politics. Derrida’s deconstruction seems muddled, but not reckless. It is, now, however, largely irrelevant.Again one suspects notices that these were essays for Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of books, and are excellent profiles, but the essays connecting the key figures do not thematically relate the figures enough. Lilla’s final essay about Syracuse and the nature of tyrannical philosophers is excellent, but he does not really lay out priorly exactly what was tyrannical about Benjamin. HIs treatment of Kojeve was interesting and clarifying, but the exact nature of the Strauss and Kojeve exchanges needed more development as well. Furthermore, Kojeve’s correspondence has been collected in “On Authority†giving a more complete view of the exchange than when only Strauss’s “On Tyranny†was translated.In short, this is an insightful but highly frustrating book. Lilla seems more annoyed with the left than the right, even if he thinks the right’s sins are greater. He does not make the digs at Schmitt or even Heidegger that he does Foucault and Derrida. Lilla’s thematic unity is merely interest in alternative and possibly totalitarian worldviews, but any more coherent and cogent theme is resisted beyond that.
This is a somewhat uneven book that nevertheless is written in such a uniquely unbiased manner that I am tempted to give it no less than 5 stars. As one of the reviewers pointed out, the weakest point is probably the essay on Heidegger; it does not discuss almost at all ideas and focuses fully on the Heidegger/Arendt/Jaspers relationship. Nevertheless, the essays on Foucault and especially on Derrida contain perhaps some of the most concise and revealing analysis of their "philosophy." Mark Lilla takes no sides, and somehow manages to present an objective picture that is fully credible. And exactly in this manner, he shows us Foucault as an extremely controversial, highly intelligent and somewhat "lost" mind, while fully exposing Derrida's total charlatanism. It is important to understand that the influence of Derrida on American academia cannot and must not be underestimated. He is one of the spiritual fathers of the American academic left and one of the reasons why you hear, for example, the term "social justice" being repeated like a mantra. JUSTICE, as interpreted by Derrida is THE ONLY concept that cannot be subject to any deconstruction, because resides OUTSIDE AND BEYOND ANY LAW. According to Derrida, JUSTICE can be experienced in a mystical way through FEELING alone, because it is outside of reach for both "nature" and "reason." Voilà ! JUSTICE means FEELING. That means simply that for those on the side of Justice (e.g. Antifa, BLM and similar abominations) EVERYTHING is allowed. The book is a guide to a cold minded understanding to many contemporary trends of thought.
Just starting this but I like this stuff. Sort of my dear old true major in college.
I have been following Mark Lilla's work, especially in the New York Review of Books, for a long time now and I have consistently thought that he is one of the most original and stimulating thinkers in the American academy today. The essays in this book are often beautifully written and always refreshing to read.
Excellent book. Not just a critique of liberal failure, but an action plan for liberal success.
One wonders if the pleas are somewhat circular - how do we think deeply and with passion and caution for days on end? Do we not need a group of good souls who work like a writer's group to accompany every philosopher...
It is dangerous for intellectuals to get involved with politics. First, there is the thing with hemlock, then stuff like carpet bombing, hubris, grandiosity, etc. Stay away from Syracuse. At the end, though, ... what is the point, why do all that reading, all that work? Tell me that Trump does not represent the end of democracy as we dreamed it, he is the ugly face of failed Reason.
A cogently argued well written group of essays that are highly informative. I would highly recommend this short book to anyone interested in the political thinking of a group of highly influential twentieth century thinkers.
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