Thinking in Public (Ebook) von Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Thinking in Public
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Strauss, Levinas, Arendt
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ISBN-13:
9780812292411
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
Ebook
Seiten:
312
Autor:
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
eBook Format:
EPUB
eBook-Typ:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Kurzbeschreibung

Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence that public political life and the figure of the intellectual provoked in the generation of European Jewish thinkers born around 1900. By comparing Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Leo Strauss, Wurgaft offers a new perspective on the relationship between philosophers and politics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I. LEO STRAUSS AND THE PROBLEM OF "THE INTELLECTUAL"
Chapter 1. Moderns and Medievals
Chapter 2. The Exoteric Writing Thesis
Chapter 3. Natural Right and Tyranny

PART II. THE DOG AT THE END OF THE VERSE: EMMANUEL LEVINAS BETWEEN ETHICS AND ENGAGEMENT
Chapter 4. Growth of a Moralist
Chapter 5. Resisting Engagement
Chapter 6. Witnessing

PART III. AGAINST SPEECHLESS WONDER: HANNAH ARENDT ON PHILOSOPHERS AND INTELLECTUALS
Chapter 7. Arendt's Weimar Origins
Chapter 8. From the Camps to Galileo
Chapter 9. One More Strange Island

PARTIV. A MISSED CONVERSATION
Chapter 10. Toward a Jewish Socrates?

Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Beschreibung
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 philosopherand sometime National SocialistMartin 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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