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

2St. Paul’s Church, Frankfurt/Main

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

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)

6Monument to the “Göttingen Seven”, Hanover

7Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804

8Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729-1781

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)

14Wolf Lepenies

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

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)

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

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

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