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The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama by David Kornhaber (review)

The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama by David... inherently suspicious and aware of its own ideological entanglements. Lastly, in the final chapter of the Part and of the volume as a whole, e Th New Public Intellectua l includes an exchange between the philosopher Simon Critchley and several of the contributors, in which Critchley ranges widely over a number of issues raised else- where in the volume, while also making the case for the significance of the public intellectual today. As the editor of e Th Ston , a p e hilosophy blog published by the New York Times, Critchley is particularly attuned to the prospect for, as well as the difficulties of, bringing oen ft complex ideas and arguments into an open forum with a wide audience. Overall, the essays included in e Th New Public Intellectua lare much more likely to generate further discussion than to arrive at any real consensus regarding the role, or even the desirability, of the public intellectual in the tw fir st cen enty- tury. But that further discussion is itself certainly desirable, as the United States and other countries attempt to deal with the ramifications of an even greater than usual anti- intellectual climate, even as the contributions of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama by David Kornhaber (review)

The Comparatist , Volume 41 – Nov 1, 2017

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University of North Carolina Press
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1559-0887

Abstract

inherently suspicious and aware of its own ideological entanglements. Lastly, in the final chapter of the Part and of the volume as a whole, e Th New Public Intellectua l includes an exchange between the philosopher Simon Critchley and several of the contributors, in which Critchley ranges widely over a number of issues raised else- where in the volume, while also making the case for the significance of the public intellectual today. As the editor of e Th Ston , a p e hilosophy blog published by the New York Times, Critchley is particularly attuned to the prospect for, as well as the difficulties of, bringing oen ft complex ideas and arguments into an open forum with a wide audience. Overall, the essays included in e Th New Public Intellectua lare much more likely to generate further discussion than to arrive at any real consensus regarding the role, or even the desirability, of the public intellectual in the tw fir st cen enty- tury. But that further discussion is itself certainly desirable, as the United States and other countries attempt to deal with the ramifications of an even greater than usual anti- intellectual climate, even as the contributions of

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The ComparatistUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 1, 2017

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