Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the salvation of philosophy
Eilenberger, Wolfram
Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the salvation of philosophy - New Delhi Allen Lane 2020 - vi,386p.
Contents
I SPARKS: 1943 1
The Project
The Prime of Life
The Situation
Deadly Sins
Morality
The Mission
Inspired
In a Trance
Moronic
Outrageous
Ready for Battle
Only Logical
The Foreigner
No Banisters
The Split
Being Present
II EXILES: 1933-1934 29
Grid
The Case of Rahel
Enlightened
Polyphonic
Being German
Back Door
Furious
Revolutionary
Cause for Concern
Third Ways
Salvation Army
Testament
Threatened
The Other
Isolated
Magic Potion
Walls
A Writing Engine
Airtight
Ideals
Nietzsche and I
Socratic Tension
III EXPERIMENTS: 1934-1935 71
Accused
Facing Justice
Selfish
Second Hand
Straight out of the Movies
Provincial Manners
The Olga Principle
Sorcerers
Role-Play
Flowers of Spirituality
Right at the Bottom
On the Conveyor Belt
Knowledge and Interest
Limits of Growth
World Turned Upside Down
Modern Times
Extinction
Before the Law
Places of Origin
Contradictions
Question in Human Form
Virgin Territory
Exclusions
IV NEAREST AND DEAREST: 1936-1937 115
We the Living
Reconquest of "I"
Howard Roark
Sensory Egocentrism
Together and Apart
Frontal
Dark Processes
Tribes
Love Thy Neighbor
Arendt Changes Direction
Paris Is for Lovers
A Shaky Pact
Free Love
Elective Affinities
Melancholia
Headaches
Moral Hinterland
Spirals of Dehumanization
Empty Words of Power
False Oppositions
Prophetic
V EVENTS: 1938-1939 163
In the Cul-de-Sac
Notes of Mercy
God's Kingdom
Not Responsible for Her Actions
The Blind Light
Back to the Sources
Blocked
Hymn
Working on the Myth
Skyscrapers
A Compelling Idea
Ecce Homo
The Poison of Recognition
Brand-New Dawn
One-Way Street
The Most Basic Lies
Salvaged Assets
Tribal Ethics
Abnormal Dependency
No Future
Prepared for Battle
Equals
War of the Worlds
The New Situation
In the Face of Fear
VI VIOLENCE: 1939-1940 211
A Relentless Spectacle
Know Thyself!
Geometry of Chance
Death and Time
Unique Sensitivity
Parachutists
Exodus
Borderline Situation
Nothing But Freedom
On the March
Homecoming
Project Hegel
Firmly Resolved
Scum of the Earth
Living Corpses
Transit
Angel of History
Mishaps
The Toohey Principle
False Equality
Manhattan Transfer
Rand's Constitutional Patriotism
I Want You!
VII FREEDOM: 1941-1942 257
As If Liberated
Emancipated at Last
Positively Charged
Thanksgiving
Tense Expectation
Selfless
Without "We"
Without Opium
Ethics of Acceptance
Superior Indifference
Crossing
This Means You!
New Horror
False Unity
Cosmopolitan Intentions
Small Crisis
Nietzsche's Curse
American Demolitionists
Social Distancing
Roark's Defense
The Verdict
VIII FIRE: 1943 309
On Strike
Not a Fiction
Deal!
New Train
Creative Transgression
Open Future
Message in a Bottle
On the Brink of the Abyss
Elements and Origins
No Fate
Foolish Fruits
Insoluble
Release
Grounding
CODA 333
Acknowledgments 341
List of Works 343
Notes 347
Selected Bibliography 365
Illustration Credits 371
Index 375
9780241537374
190.9 / EIL
Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the salvation of philosophy - New Delhi Allen Lane 2020 - vi,386p.
Contents
I SPARKS: 1943 1
The Project
The Prime of Life
The Situation
Deadly Sins
Morality
The Mission
Inspired
In a Trance
Moronic
Outrageous
Ready for Battle
Only Logical
The Foreigner
No Banisters
The Split
Being Present
II EXILES: 1933-1934 29
Grid
The Case of Rahel
Enlightened
Polyphonic
Being German
Back Door
Furious
Revolutionary
Cause for Concern
Third Ways
Salvation Army
Testament
Threatened
The Other
Isolated
Magic Potion
Walls
A Writing Engine
Airtight
Ideals
Nietzsche and I
Socratic Tension
III EXPERIMENTS: 1934-1935 71
Accused
Facing Justice
Selfish
Second Hand
Straight out of the Movies
Provincial Manners
The Olga Principle
Sorcerers
Role-Play
Flowers of Spirituality
Right at the Bottom
On the Conveyor Belt
Knowledge and Interest
Limits of Growth
World Turned Upside Down
Modern Times
Extinction
Before the Law
Places of Origin
Contradictions
Question in Human Form
Virgin Territory
Exclusions
IV NEAREST AND DEAREST: 1936-1937 115
We the Living
Reconquest of "I"
Howard Roark
Sensory Egocentrism
Together and Apart
Frontal
Dark Processes
Tribes
Love Thy Neighbor
Arendt Changes Direction
Paris Is for Lovers
A Shaky Pact
Free Love
Elective Affinities
Melancholia
Headaches
Moral Hinterland
Spirals of Dehumanization
Empty Words of Power
False Oppositions
Prophetic
V EVENTS: 1938-1939 163
In the Cul-de-Sac
Notes of Mercy
God's Kingdom
Not Responsible for Her Actions
The Blind Light
Back to the Sources
Blocked
Hymn
Working on the Myth
Skyscrapers
A Compelling Idea
Ecce Homo
The Poison of Recognition
Brand-New Dawn
One-Way Street
The Most Basic Lies
Salvaged Assets
Tribal Ethics
Abnormal Dependency
No Future
Prepared for Battle
Equals
War of the Worlds
The New Situation
In the Face of Fear
VI VIOLENCE: 1939-1940 211
A Relentless Spectacle
Know Thyself!
Geometry of Chance
Death and Time
Unique Sensitivity
Parachutists
Exodus
Borderline Situation
Nothing But Freedom
On the March
Homecoming
Project Hegel
Firmly Resolved
Scum of the Earth
Living Corpses
Transit
Angel of History
Mishaps
The Toohey Principle
False Equality
Manhattan Transfer
Rand's Constitutional Patriotism
I Want You!
VII FREEDOM: 1941-1942 257
As If Liberated
Emancipated at Last
Positively Charged
Thanksgiving
Tense Expectation
Selfless
Without "We"
Without Opium
Ethics of Acceptance
Superior Indifference
Crossing
This Means You!
New Horror
False Unity
Cosmopolitan Intentions
Small Crisis
Nietzsche's Curse
American Demolitionists
Social Distancing
Roark's Defense
The Verdict
VIII FIRE: 1943 309
On Strike
Not a Fiction
Deal!
New Train
Creative Transgression
Open Future
Message in a Bottle
On the Brink of the Abyss
Elements and Origins
No Fate
Foolish Fruits
Insoluble
Release
Grounding
CODA 333
Acknowledgments 341
List of Works 343
Notes 347
Selected Bibliography 365
Illustration Credits 371
Index 375
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190.9 / EIL