The Europe of the Intellectuals

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The Europe of the Intellectuals

• Europes Key Problems in the Eyes of its Cultural
  Elite
• EUROPEAN ROUNDTABLE VII
• Stanford Continuing Studies
• October 28, 2006

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St. Pauls Church, Frankfurt/Main
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National Assembly in St. Pauls, 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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Monument to the Göttingen Seven, Hanover
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Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729-1781
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Voltaire, 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 Kolakowski, 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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Wolf Lepenies
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Emile Zola, 1840-1902 (by Edouard Manet)
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Montparnasse 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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Günter 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 LiteratureWalter A. Haas
Professor in the HumanitiesSenior Fellow at the
Institute for International Studies and the
Hoover Institution
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HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHTAlbert Guerard Professor
of Literature and Professor of French and Italian
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Hans Weilers Websitehttp//www.stanford.edu/w
eiler(Click on European Roundtable)