Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt

by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224345
• ISBN13: 9780812224344
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"