Dangerous Thinkers: Philosophers and Totalitarianism |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Sunday, 27 October 2002 19:13 |
Book: The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics, Mark Lilla
Review: Dangerous Thinkers: 20th-century philosophers’ love affair with totalitarianism, reason.com
"..the first thing to note about Mark Lilla’s incisive new book, The Reckless Mind, is that only one of the minds he profiles, Martin Heidegger, rises even to the level of a single-A farm team. Most of the rest -- including Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Alexandre Kojeve, and Michel Foucault -- are wobbly Little Leaguers. And one, Jacques Derrida, has made a career out of playing whiffle ball in his own backyard, with half the humanities professors in the United States watching and doing color commentary.
Lilla’s book reminds us that some of the most renowned European thinkers of the 20th century were high-octane sons of bitches."
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