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Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” at 75 (opens the original)
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The book came out in full Cold War in 1951, six years after Hitler’s death. Stalin was alive and ostensibly well. Arendt’s book, erudite and provocative, was an intellectual, political, and moral eye-opener. Other authors had written on totaliarianism as a novel type of political system, but none with Hannah Arendt’s conceptual boldness and philosophical acumen. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8lE4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:stee
Shestov, Fondane, Kristol and the Other Existentialism (opens the original)
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Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz remembered that it was Romanian-French novelist Sorana Gurian who urged him to read Lev Shestov. Thinkers as different as Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, and E. M. Cioran held Shestov in hisghest esteem. Today, haphazardly, I discovered how Shestov entered the world of the New York intellectuals in the aftermath of WWII and in full Cold War.. This is a page of intellectual history which bears upon American and European discussions on the limits of Reason, nihilism, and sa
Demons: Metapolitics, Nihilism, and Radicalism in a Century of Ideological Passions (opens the original)
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Today I retrieved the first chapter of a book planned to be co-authored with Lithuanian political scientist and cultural philosopher Leonidas Donskis (13 August 1962 – 21 September 2016). In fact, it was his idea and he approached a publisher to consider the project. We got a contract and we started working. He gave the salvo. Leonidas passed away suddenly and shockingly, the project froze. But there are tens of pages already written. It is an intense and, it seems o me, quite thrilling dialogue
The Specious Reason of Unreason (opens the original)
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“It was this absence of thinking that awakened my interest. Is evil-doing … possible in default of not just ‘base motives’ ... but of any motives whatever? … Might the problem of good and evil, our faculty for telling right from wrong, be connected with our faculty of thought?” (Hannah Arendt, Life of the Mind) <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NqxS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com
Cold War Liberalism and the Dissident Concept of Freedom (opens the original)
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Once Leninist regimes fell apart in East Central Europe, old and new cleavages did come to surface. Initially lionized as exponents of the alternative, parallel, emancipated polis, critical intellectuals started to be derided as quixotic dreamers. A prominent scholar (Stephen Kotkin) referred tongue-in-cheek to the interpretive civil society paradigm as a mere intellectual reverie. The conference organized by "Partisan Review" at Rutgers Unversity in Newark, NJ, more thirty-five years ago, broug
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