Far From Home

Title: Far From Home

Author: C. Offermans

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789023412274

Condition: Good

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Description:
'Thinking has nothing to do with taking positions, but rather with abandoning them. Thinking means: getting into motion, making hardened contradictions flexible. Whoever takes a position is forced into a warlike role. He has stood at that point, now he will not abandon it for anything.'
In this multifaceted collection, Cyrille Offermans sketches the fortunes of the modern intellectual, from his birth in the spirit of eighteenth-century essayism to his languishing existence in our days. Can the modern intellectual still mirror Rodin's Penseur? Should he dare to get his hands dirty? Is it part of his responsibility to promote the continuation of talk shows?
Inspired by four exemplary thinkers - Denis Diderot, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Peter Sloterdijk - Offermans writes about education and teaching, philosophy and politics, literature and the visual arts. The apotheosis of this book is a five-part fictitious interview, a dialogue as light-hearted as it is sharp in the wake of Diderot, in which the question is raised as to what the concept of intellectual can still mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The events of September 11 unexpectedly bring this issue into sharp focus.
'Children should not be made afraid of life, they should be made to enjoy it. That is about all. They should experience that life is something other than sour duty and sad self-consumption. The ideal is: to go out into the world without suspicion - to return home without rancour.'