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Laddar... The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (utgåvan 2016)av Mark Lilla (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is a fairly amazing set of essays that I will re-read at least once, if not twice. ( ) The best non-fiction book I've read in a long while... I picked this book up after reading the author's article in the NYTimes Book Review section, The End of Identity Liberalism in which Lilla offhandedly offers a withering critique of the absurd reception of JD Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. As luck would have it, I had recently started Houellebecq's Submission which is critiqued within the pages of Shipwrecked. Submission and Shipwrecked should be read simultaneously. If it weren't for the pain of reading Elegy I would have missed out on the the pleasure of reading Lilla and Houellebecq in the same breath. So now you know the recipe to expanding yourself into a goodread mindfuck. You're welcome. While I rate books to the half point (do you?) Lilla's book, for me is a solid 4. I also believe in, and rank my weightings in a binomial distribution, with no rated book getting lower than a 2.5. In any case, I read The Shipwrecked Mind as an antidote to my creeping anxiety over Tuesday's election. On that score, I'm now prepared to read, say Leo Strauss, whose U of Chicago credentials, and his acknowledged worship by the reactionary right in this country would have scared me off prior to this read. Of my six grandchildren, half are in Jewish lineage. Lilla's treatment of Franz Rosenzweig lifts my spirits to understand that part of their inheritance. His treatment of the Jewish and Christian places in history, and especially how each regards that place was illuminating and hopeful. He leads us through Rosenzweig's 'The Star of Redemption'.. " and by far the richest, is a startling sociological comparison of Jewish and Christian ways of life". This is immediately followed by (unsurprisingly, when we encounter it) "Rosenzweig dismisses Islam as a mere parody of revealed religion". My only disappointment was his concluding chapter when he serializes columns he wrote for the NY Review of Books while he was in Paris in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, 2015. He introduces French writers, Eric Zemmour and Michel Houellebecq, the latter who was fortunate (as France was not) to have a book come out on the eve of the attacks. His review helps to understand the French struggle with their own history. At the moment, I can't give this sufficient energy to be interested. As a reader's guide, I've prepared a little page here: http://mcgowans.org/marty3/commonplace/idea/shipwreckedmind.html, which I'll use to tour some of the influential philosophers and authors he cites. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history is rushing toward catastrophe. And like the revolutionary his political engagements are motived by highly developed ideas. Lilla unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers--Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss --who attributed the problems of modern society to a break in the history of ideas and promoted a return to earlier modes of thought. He then examines the enduring power of grand historical narratives of betrayal to shape political outlooks ever since the French Revolution. These narratives are employed to serve different, and sometimes expressly opposed, ends. They appear in the writings of Europe's right-wing cultural pessimists and Maoist neocommunists, American theoconservatives fantasizing about the harmony of medieval Catholic society and radical Islamists seeking to restore a vanished Muslim caliphate. The revolutionary spirit that inspired political movements across the world for two centuries may have died out. But the spirit of reaction that rose to meet it has survived and is proving just as formidable a historical force. We live in an age when the tragicomic nostalgia of Don Quixote for a lost golden age has been transformed into a potent and sometimes deadly weapon. Mark Lilla helps us to understand why"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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