Mark Lilla, Author . Knopf $26 (334p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4367-5
This searching history of western thinking about the relationship between religion and politics was inspired not by 9/11, but by Nazi Germany, where, says University of Chicago professor Lilla (The Reckless Mind
), politics and religion were...
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Mark Lilla. New York Review Books, $15 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59017-902-4
Lilla’s fascinating exploration of political conservatism shows how various so-called reactionaries have helped shape history. Adapted from Lilla’s essays in the New York Review of Books and the New Republic, this book profiles several prominent...
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Mark Lilla. Harper, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-269743-1
This slim polemic excoriates the identity politics of contemporary liberalism and blames it for Donald Trump’s victory. In a reasoned analysis of 20th-century American politics, Lilla (The Shipwrecked Mind), a Columbia professor, observes that...
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Mark Lilla. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-17435-4
Historian Lilla (The Once and Future Liberal) provides a freewheeling exploration of the human “will to ignorance,” a term coined by Friedrich Nietzsche to describe an attitude of “deliberate exclusion, a shutting of one’s windows... a satisfaction...
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