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Thinking in Public - Strauss, Levinas, Arendt (Hardcover)
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Thinking in Public - Strauss, Levinas, Arendt (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas
of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among
many European philosophers and political theorists. Thinking in
Public examines the ambivalence these linked ideas provoked in the
generation of European Jewish thinkers born around 1900. By
comparing the lives and works of Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas,
and Leo Strauss, who grew up in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair and
studied with the philosopher-and sometime National Socialist-Martin
Heidegger, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft offers a strikingly new
perspective on the relationship between philosophers and politics.
Rather than celebrate or condemn the figure of the intellectual,
Wurgaft argues that the stories we tell about intellectuals and
their publics are useful barometers of our political hopes and
fears. What ideas about philosophy itself, and about the public's
capacity for reasoned discussion, are contained in these stories?
And what work do we think philosophers and other thinkers can and
should accomplish in the world beyond the classroom? The
differences between Arendt, Levinas, and Strauss were great, but
Wurgaft shows that all three came to believe that the question of
the social role of the philosopher was the question of their
century. The figure of the intellectual was not an ideal to be
emulated but rather a provocation inviting these three thinkers to
ask whether truth and politics could ever be harmonized, whether
philosophy was a fundamentally worldly or unworldly practice.
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