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      The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals

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      Evil, Enlightenment, and Death

      The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals

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      The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals book

      Evil, Enlightenment, and Death
      Edited ByHarry Redner
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315135427
      Pages 340
      eBook ISBN 9781315135427
      Subjects Humanities
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      Redner, H. (Ed.). (2016). The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals: Evil, Enlightenment, and Death (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315135427

      ABSTRACT

      This fourth instalment of Harry Redner's tetralogy on the history of civilization argues that intellectuals have a brilliant past, a dubious present, and possibly no future. He contends that the philosophers of the seventeenth century laid the ground for the intellectuals of the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. They, in turn, promoted a fundamental transformation of human consciousness: they literally intellectualized the world. The outcome was the disenchantment of the world in all its cultural dimensions: in art, religion, ethics, politics, and philosophy.In this fascinating study, Redner demonstrates how secularization took the sting out of both the dread and promise of an afterlife and intellectuals learned to die without the hope of immortality popularized by philosophy and religion. Ultimately, they produced the ideologies that generated the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, which subsequently exterminated these intellectuals through mass murder on a scale never before experienced. The book traces the sources of this fatal entanglement and goes on to examine the contemporary condition of intellectuals in America and the world.Wherein lies the future of the intellectuals? Redner suggest that in the present state of globalization, dominated by technocrats, experts, and professionals, their fate remains uncertain.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part I|108 pages

      Evil and the Tragedy of the Intellectuals

      chapter 1|44 pages

      How Intellectuals Arrived at Radical Evil

      chapter 2|32 pages

      The Psychology and Sociology of Radical Evil

      chapter 3|30 pages

      On How to Judge Radical Evil Doers

      part II|102 pages

      Enlightenment and the Triumph of the Intellectuals

      chapter 4|42 pages

      The Varieties of Intellectuals in Europe

      chapter 5|26 pages

      The Intellectualization of the World

      chapter 6|32 pages

      The Fall of the Intellectuals in Europe and America

      part III|80 pages

      Death and Afterlife

      chapter 7|22 pages

      Death in History

      chapter 8|18 pages

      De-demonization and Democracy

      chapter 9|22 pages

      The Many Faces of Death

      chapter 10|16 pages

      The Return of the Intellectuals

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