The Shipwrecked Mind by Mark Lilla

Author:Mark Lilla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2016-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

* On Heidegger and his involvement with National Socialism, see my The Reckless Mind, chapter 1.

† “Judaism is not a misfortune but, let us say, a ‘heroic delusion.’ . . . No nobler dream was ever dreamt. It is surely nobler to be a victim of the most noble dream than to profit from a sordid reality and to wallow in it. . . . The truth of the ultimate mystery—the truth that there is an ultimate mystery, that being is radically mysterious—cannot be denied even by the unbelieving Jew of our age.”See “Why We Remain Jews” (1962), in Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, a collection of Strauss’s writings on Judaism (SUNY Press, 1997).

‡ Thanks to the work of the Leo Strauss Center at the University of Chicago, many audio tapes and transcripts of Strauss’s courses can now be consulted online. See leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu.

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