The Europe of the Intellectuals
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The Europe of the Intellectuals
Europe’s Key Problems in the Eyes of its Cultural Elite
EUROPEAN ROUNDTABLE VII
Stanford Continuing Studies
October 28, 2006
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2St. Paul’s Church, Frankfurt/Main
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3National Assembly in St. Paul’s, Frankfurt, 1848
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King Frederic William IV of Prussia rejecting a constitutional Emperorship
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Members of the “Göttingen Seven” in the National Assembly of 1848
• Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (History)
• Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (Public Law)
• Georg Gottfried Gervinus (Literature)
• Jacob Grimm (German)
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6Monument to the “Göttingen Seven”, Hanover
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7Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
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8Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729-1781
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9Voltaire, 1694-1778
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Recipients of the Peace Prize of the German Book Publishers (1)
• Martin Buber, the Jewish philosopher (1953),
• Hermann Hesse, the German writer (1955)• Thornton Wilder, the American playwright
(1957),• Paul Tillich, the protestant theologian
(1962),• Gabriel Marcel, the French philosopher
(1964)
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Recipients of the Peace Prize of the German Book Publishers (2)
• Léopold Sédar Senghor, the African writer and politician from Senegal (1968),
• Alexander Mitscherlich, a German psychologist (1969),
• Leszek Kołakowski, the Polish social theorist (1977),
• Yehudi Menuhin (1979), the violinist,
• Ernesto Cardenal from Nicaragua (1980)
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Recipients of the Peace Prize of the German Book Publishers (3)
• George F. Kennan of the U.S. (1982),
• Teddy Kollek, the Mayor of Jerusalem (1985),
• Václav Havel, the Czech writer and politician (1989),
• György Konrad, Hungarian writer, president of the Berlin Academy of the Arts (1991),
• Friedrich Schorlemmer, protestant minister and one of the inspirers of the democracy movement in Eastern Germany (1993)
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Recipients of the Peace Prize of the German Book Publishers (4)
• Jürgen Habermas, the philosopher (2001),
• Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist (2002),
• Susan Sontag, the late American writer and social critic (2003) ,
• Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer (2005),
• Wolf Lepenies, sociologist (2006)
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14Wolf Lepenies
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15Emile Zola, 1840-1902 (by Edouard Manet)
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16Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
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Public intellectuals in France• Emile Zola
• Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir
• Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
• Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
• Jean Baudrillard (1927 - )
• Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)
• Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973)
• Alfred Grosser (1925 - )
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Public intellectuals in Italy
• Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
• Umberto Eco (1932 - )
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Public intellectuals in Germany
• Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 - )
• Heinrich Böll (1917 – 1985)
• Walter Jens (1923 - )
• Hans Küng (1928 - )
• Josef Ratzinger – Benedikt XVI (1927 - )
• Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986)
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Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 (Memorial in Washington D.C.)
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Public intellectuals in controversy
• E. O. Wilson (Biology, Harvard): Sociobiology controversy
• Rolf Hochhuth (Writer, Germany): The Deputy
• Martin Walser (Writer, Germany): Against the ritualized invocation of the Holocaust
• Günter Grass (Writer, Germany): Revealing his membership in the Waffen-SS, 1944-45
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22Günter Grass
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Public intellectuals in Europe: Issues of concern
• The future of the welfare state
• The integration/expansion of the EU (including Turkish membership)
• Multiculturalism in European societies
• Relationship between religion and state
• Europe and Islam
• The future of the Atlantic relationship and the international order
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Public intellectuals in the U.S.?
• Paul Krugman
• Norman Mailer
• Tom Friedman
• Robert Kagan
• Michael Ignatieff
• Harold Bloom
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RUSSELL A. BERMANProfessor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature
Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities
Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies and the
Hoover Institution
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HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT
Albert Guerard Professor of Literature and Professor of
French and Italian
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Hans Weiler’s Website:
http://www.stanford.edu/~weiler
(Click on “European Roundtable”)