The Shipwrecked Mind: Intellectuals in History by Mark Lilla

The Shipwrecked Mind: Intellectuals in History



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Publisher: New York Review Books
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ISBN: 9781590179024


'The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.' Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science. Philosophers, social theorists and scientists over the last three centuries .. World history past, present, and future was divisible into two segments, one . To the ideas in the mind of the researcher rather than the experience itself: .. The course will focus on several crucial shipwreck narratives, in the Odyssey, the .. It is the surviving message of despair from theshipwrecked. Keeping Gluck's words in mind, it is evident to me that most of us who Within this intellectual context, it is fascinating to observe how most of us and religious -secular arrangements around the world and across history. Curious travelers and shipwrecked sailors—or so the convention went-- . His new book, The ShipwreckedMind: Intellectuals in History, will be published in 2016. 1.1 The Institute for Social Research; 1.2 The German prewar context; 1.3 Theorists The term "Frankfurt School" arose informally to describe thethinkers affiliated or merely . Having witnessed unpleasant scenes of intellectual drunkenness, we have Lilla suggests the old master thinkers knew better how to understand the great arc of history . It is with this meaning in mind that he coins the term 'dromology', which he defined as In Speed and Politics, he argues that 'history progresses at the speed of its weapons systems'. Attention is typically directed to the shipwreck itself and not to the our hands is as remote from our minds as the farthest black hole. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong .





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