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The “New York Intellectuals” and Me
Recently I’ve been reading a book titled Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words, by Joseph Dorman. It’s based on the author’s interviews with surviving members of a group that played a significant part in the … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Good Look at Evil by Abigail L. Rosenthal, Abigail L. Rosenthal’s “A Hegelian Key to Hegel’s Method”, academic norms, academic values, American intellectual culture, anti-capitalism, apocalyptic thinking, Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words by Joseph Dorman, art historian, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, “unreal city in the future”, betraying the revolution, Book-of-the-Month Club judge, brainwashing, children of Jewish immigrants, City College alcove 1, City College in the 1930’s, City College Marxists, Clifton Fadiman, coerced confessions, Columbia University class of 1925, Columbia University rabbi, cultural critic, culturally malnourished, dating artwork, defacing Alma Mater, Diana Trilling’s The Beginning of the Journey, discrediting a civilization, enemy of the people, ex-communist, finding attribution of artworks, genius of the class of 1925, George Orwell's "1984", Hannah Arendt, Henry M. Rosenthal, Henry M. Rosenthal’s journal, Hitler-Stalin Pact, ignorance of civilization, Information Please, intellectual conscience of America, intellectual friendship, intellectual safety, intellectuals and the Great Depression, Jacob Taubes, Jacques Barzun, Jewish intellectuals, Joseph Stalin, Judaism and the method of argument, Leon Trotsky, Lionel Trilling, Lionel Trilling and Henry M. Rosenthal, literary critic, Lower East Side garment district, Lower East Side immigrants, Meyer Schapiro, Meyer Schapiro as art historian, mobs against the academy, New York intellectuals, New York intellectuals network of influence, public intellectuals, radio personality of the 1950’s, Reign of Terror, revolutionaries vs liberals, The Country of the Revolution, The God That Failed, the Great Depression, The Moscow Trials, the opiate of the people, Trotskyists vs Stalinists at City College, Trotskyites, twentieth-century America, Whittaker Chambers, world wide revolution, youthful friendships
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Where’d My World Go?
The world in which I came of age, learned to be a young woman, and entered my chosen academic field of philosophy, did not include provisions for people who hated Jews and wanted them dead. Hitler lost the War – … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, academic bureaucracy, academic freedom, academic limits on free speech, academic norms, academic philosophy, Analytic philosophy, anti-semitism and contemporary culture, becoming a philosopher, chivalry and anti-semitism, choosing a career, civilization and self-defense, civilization’s self-rejection, coming of age, Continental philosophy, crisis points in history, cultural wholeness, Daniel Dennett’s I’ve Been Thinking, dialectic and history, entering academia, evil as objective reality, evil intruding in ordinary lives, FDR saves capitalism, free speech and anti-semitism, free speech and insults, free speech and threats, free speech for me but not for thee, freedom of speech in the academy, gratitude for Jews, Harvard philosophers and anti-semitism, Hegel, Hilary Putnam, Jewish refugees, Jews in academic life, learning womanhood, Merleau-Ponty, modernity and alienation, Mother as unsung hero, Mother captures Nazi spy ring, not looking for trouble, oldest hatred, philosophers open to refutation, philosophers who can fix your flat tire, philosophers you can trust, philosophy and real life situations, publish or perish, quarrel between the analysts and the continentals, quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, reductionism and philosophy, self-hatred projected on the Jews, seventeenth-century, status of Jews, the War against the Jews, unsung hero, woman in academic philosophy, women’s stories
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