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Mark Lilla

Professor
Columbia University, New York
Ignorance et bonheur
01 October 2014 - 30 June 2015
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Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.  His research has focused on critics of the modern Enlightenment, beginning in the early eighteenth century (G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern, 1994) and running through the present (The Reckless Mind, 1993, and The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, 2007). 

He is currently writing a book called Ignorance and Bliss, which is a reflection on why certain thinkers living in different epochs have concluded, contra Socrates, that the examined life may not be worth living. Among the themes explored are the idealisation of innocence and the belief that it might be recovered; the fear that curiosity will destroy social bonds and render human beings weak and less spontaneous; and the conviction that intellectual inquiry renders those who conduct it skeptical and melancholic.  The book is, so to speak, an archeology of ignorance.

Debate with Mark Lilla (Columbia University, Paris IAS 2014-2015), author of "La gauche identitaire. L’Amérique en miettes" (Stock, 2018), organized within the framework of the cycle "L'Esprit du temps"
03 Oct 2018 18:00 -
03 Oct 2018 19:30,
Paris :
Les identités contre la politique
Communication de Mark Lilla, résident à l'IEA de Paris
19 May 2015 18:30 -
19 May 2015 18:30,
Zurich :
Die Unlesbarkeit unserer Zeit
Débat avec la participation de Mark Lilla, résident à l'IEA de Paris
17 Mar 2015 00:00 -
17 Mar 2015 00:00,
Berlin :
Weltordnung ohne Europa
Communication de Mark Lilla, résident à l'IEA de Paris
14 Nov 2014 15:00 -
14 Nov 2014 15:00,
Paris :
Les nons de la nostalgie politique
Debate with Mark Lilla (Columbia University, Paris IAS 2014-2015), author of "La gauche identitaire. L’Amérique en miettes" (Stock, 2018)
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