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The Europe of the Intellectuals

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. St. Paul’s Church, Frankfurt/Main. National Assembly in St. Paul’s, Frankfurt, 1848.

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The Europe of the Intellectuals

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  1. 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

  2. St. Paul’s Church, Frankfurt/Main

  3. National Assembly in St. Paul’s, Frankfurt, 1848

  4. King Frederic William IV of Prussia rejecting a constitutional Emperorship

  5. 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)

  6. Monument to the “Göttingen Seven”, Hanover

  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804

  8. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729-1781

  9. Voltaire, 1694-1778

  10. 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)

  11. 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)

  12. 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)

  13. 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)

  14. Wolf Lepenies

  15. Emile Zola, 1840-1902 (by Edouard Manet)

  16. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris

  17. 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 - )

  18. Public intellectuals in Italy • Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) • Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) • Umberto Eco (1932 - )

  19. 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)

  20. Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 (Memorial in Washington D.C.)

  21. 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

  22. Günter Grass

  23. 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

  24. Public intellectuals in the U.S.? • Paul Krugman • Norman Mailer • Tom Friedman • Robert Kagan • Michael Ignatieff • Harold Bloom

  25. RUSSELL A. BERMANProfessor of German Studies and of Comparative LiteratureWalter A. Haas Professor in the HumanitiesSenior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution

  26. HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHTAlbert Guerard Professor of Literature and Professor of French and Italian

  27. Hans Weiler’s Website:http://www.stanford.edu/~weiler(Click on “European Roundtable”)

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