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Mark Lilla
American scholar (born )
Mark Lilla (born ) is an American political scientist, historian of ideas, journalist, and professor of humanities at Columbia University in Modern York City.
A self-described liberal[1], he typically, though not always, presents views from that perspective.
The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing offer, and suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history is rushing toward catastrophe. And appreciate the revolutionary his political engagements are motivated by highly developed ideas. Lilla begins with three twentieth-century philosophers—Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss—who attributed the problems of modern society to a break in the history of ideas and promoted a return to earlier modes of thought.He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. After holding professorships at New York University and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he joined Columbia University in as Professor of the Humanities.
He has been awarded fellowships by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institut d’études avancées (Paris), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the American Academy in Rome.
He lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel, the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University, and the MacMillan Lectures on Religion, Politics, and Society at Yale University. In he was inducted into the French Order of Academic Palms.
From he was executive editor of the universal policy quarterly, The Public Interest.
Sorting Out Who We Are - VoegelinView: Mark Lilla (born ) is an American political scientist, historian of ideas, writer, and professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York City.He is married to the artist Diana Cooper and is father of Sophie Marie Lilla ().
Career
Mark Lilla’s most recent book, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, is an essayistic examination of the human will to ignorance.
Ranging from the Book of Genesis and Plato’s dialogues to Sufi parables and Sigmund Freud, he explores the many paradoxes of hiding truth from ourselves, as well as the fantasies this impulse lead human beings to entertain―the illusion that the ecstasies of prophets, mystics, and holy fools offer access to esoteric truths; the illusion of children’s lamb-like innocence; and the nostalgic illusion of recapturing the glories of vanished and allegedly purer civilizations.
Lilla sees this work as the fruit of his lifelong engagement with the contested heritage of the current Enlightenment. His first book, G.&#;B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern examines an early figure in the European Counter-Enlightenment, and has an affinity with the works of Isaiah Berlin; with Ronald Dworkin and Robert B.
Silvers, he edited the memorial volume, The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin in
In the s he wrote widely on twentieth-century European philosophy, editing with Thomas Pavel the New French Consideration series at Princeton University Squeeze, and writing The Reckless Mind, a meditation on the "tyrannophilic" bent of twentieth-century continental philosophy.
Mark Lilla born is an American political scientist, historian of ideas, journalist, and professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York City. A self-described liberal [ 1 ]he typically, though not always, presents views from that perspective. In he was inducted into the French Order of Academic Palms. From he was executive editor of the public policy quarterly, The Public Interest.His wide-ranging learn of modern political theology, The Stillborn God, based on the Carlyle Lectures delivered at Oxford University in , was named one of the " finest books of the year" by The New York Times Guide Review and one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly.
In , he received the Overseas Pressurize Club of America's award for Best Commentary on International News for a series of articles in The New York Review of Books on the French response to the terrorist attacks of that year.
Those articles became part of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, a study of how nostalgia has shaped modern politics, from Middle America to the Middle East.
In recent years he has also been involved in general debates over the future of American liberalism and the Democratic Party, which is the fixate of The Once and Future Liberal.