Thinking in Public : Strauss, Levinas, Arendt / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes, Author.

Series:

Intellectual history of the modern age.

Intellectual History of the Modern Age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strauss, Leo--Political and social views.

Strauss, Leo.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Political and social views.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Political and social views.

Arendt, Hannah.

Intellectuals--Political activity--Germany--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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?"--Jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Leo Strauss and the problem of "the intellectual"

part II. The dog at the end of the verse : Emmanuel Levinas between ethics and engagement

part III. Against speechless wonder : Hannah Arendt on philosophers and intellectuals

part IV. A missed conversation.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780812292411

0812292413

OCLC:

979631399