Against Passion
James Meek: Passionate Politics, 30 November 2017
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
by Mark Lilla.
Harper, 160 pp., £19, August 2017,978 0 06 269743 1 Show More
by Mark Lilla.
Harper, 160 pp., £19, August 2017,
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
by Mark Lilla.
NYRB, 166 pp., £9.99, September 2016,978 1 59017 902 4 Show More
by Mark Lilla.
NYRB, 166 pp., £9.99, September 2016,
“... to Kojève and his initiates was that they were engaged in ‘passionate thinking’. Lilla quotes Georges Bataille as saying that each encounter with Kojève left him ‘broken, crushed, killed ten times over: suffocated and nailed down’. Bataille felt it necessary to validate an intellectual experience by ... ”