# The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

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- Authors: [Mark Lilla](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-lilla)
- Publisher: New York Review Books
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-116-0
- Pages: 248
- Published: 2016-09-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...