Hans Tuzzi - Il sesto Faraone

Hans Tuzzi – Il sesto Faraone
Italian | Bollati Boringhieri | 2016 | EPUB | Pages 129 | ASIN: B01D015D52 | 1.81 Mb

Aprile 1921. Emerso dal vortice della Grande guerra senza un soldo e senza una patria, Neron Vukcic – che i lettori hanno già visto all’opera nella spy-story Il Trio dell’arciduca – accetta l’inattesa proposta di Taamar Margulies, il ricco mercante di spezie conosciuto a Costantinopoli una vita fa, nel giugno 1914: l’anziano Margulies, infatti, sospetta che il genero Aaron Peres, a capo della filiale di Alessandria d’Egitto, falsifichi i giri contabili dell’azienda, forse per garantire un sostegno economico ai Giovani Turchi ribelli all’esangue governo del Sultano. Vukcic accetta, e sbarca ad Alessandria, la fascinosa Perla del Mediterraneo, la città fondata da Alessandro il Grande cantata da poeti e viaggiatori, metropoli sensuale con più religioni e razze e lingue e sessi di quante siano le dita delle mani. Così, nella voglia di vivere scoppiata con il dopoguerra, tra la società cosmopolita che affolla le strade, i club e le spiagge, tra archeologi impegnati in campagne di scavo e giovani coppie lanciate nei nuovi balli venuti dall’America, tra i segni dell’antico splendore e il presente segnato dalla sorda crescente insofferenza nei confronti della dominazione inglese, il robusto ex agente segreto del governo imperial-regio austroungarico incomincia a indagare. Ma l’imprevisto non tarda a cambiare le regole del gioco: al termine di un’elegante cena in onore di due noti archeologi, nel giardino di villa Peres viene trovato cadavere un noto antiquario greco in fama di usuraio. Con un proiettile in testa.

Heidegger"s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse (Repost)

Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse By Richard Wolin
2015 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 069116861X | EPUB + PDF | 4 MB + 5 MB

Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century’s greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany’s brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal commitments to Heidegger with his nefarious political views.
In 1933, Heidegger cast his lot with National Socialism. He squelched the careers of Jewish students and denounced fellow professors whom he considered insufficiently radical. For years, he signed letters and opened lectures with ”Heil Hitler!” He paid dues to the Nazi party until the bitter end. Equally problematic for his former students were his sordid efforts to make existential thought serviceable to Nazi ends and his failure to ever renounce these actions.
This book explores how four of Heidegger’s most influential Jewish students came to grips with his Nazi association and how it affected their thinking. Hannah Arendt, who was Heidegger’s lover as well as his student, went on to become one of the century’s greatest political thinkers. Karl Löwith returned to Germany in 1953 and quickly became one of its leading philosophers. Hans Jonas grew famous as Germany’s premier philosopher of environmentalism. Herbert Marcuse gained celebrity as a Frankfurt School intellectual and mentor to the New Left.
Why did these brilliant minds fail to see what was in Heidegger’s heart and Germany’s future? How would they, after the war, reappraise Germany’s intellectual traditions? Could they salvage aspects of Heidegger’s thought? Would their philosophy reflect or completely reject their early studies? Could these Heideggerians forgive, or even try to understand, the betrayal of the man they so admired? Heidegger’s Children locates these paradoxes in the wider cruel irony that European Jews experienced their greatest calamity immediately following their fullest assimilation. And it finds in their responses answers to questions about the nature of existential disillusionment and the juncture between politics and ideas.