Mark Lilla: 8 books

¿Cómo puede la izquierda recuperar sus valores y ofrecer un proyecto de futuro comprometido con la sociedad? El análisis y las conclusiones de Lilla son de lectura obligatoria a ambos lados del Atlántico para entender qué sucede a los partidos progresistas. La victoria electoral...

We don’t understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today’s political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone...

¿Qué es lo «reaccionario»?: una figura radical y moderna, en absoluto conservadora, un tanto naufragada en un presente constantemente cambiante que sufre de nostalgia por un pasado idealizado. En este necesario libro, Mark Lilla analiza la tendencia actual hacia lo «reaccionario». Somos...

European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose work depends on freedom defend those who would deny it?    In profiles of six leading...

A brilliant account of religion's role in the political thinking of the West, from the Enlightenment to the close of World War II.The wish to bring political life under God's authority is nothing new, and it's clear that today religious passions are again driving world politics, confounding expectations...

Mark Lilla aborda en Pensadores temerarios el intrigante tema de los diversos intelectuales del siglo XX que sucumbieron, en distinto grado, a la fascinación del poder totalitario, sus líderes carismáticos o sus mesiánicas ideologías. Mediante los sugerentes perfiles de seis figuras indiscutibles...

An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues — most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy — some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...

From one of the most internationally admired political thinkers, a controversial polemic on the failures of identity politics and what comes next for the left — in America and beyond. Following the shocking results of the US election of 2016, public intellectuals across the globe offered...