CAPS Book Talk: From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship (2016) - Paul Hollander

Date: 

Friday, October 13, 2017, 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, K354, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Paul Hollander, "Dictators, Intellectuals, and the Spiritual Problems of Modernity."

Paul Hollander is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Born in Hungary, he fled to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was put down by Soviet forces. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton and is the author of many books. He will discuss his new bookFrom Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship (2016). Paul Hollander: “I will suggest some explanations of the political misjudgments of many Western intellectuals with special reference to the highly patterned, wishful misperceptions of the dictators, of the intellectuals’ pursuit of meaning, community and social justice, the connections between problems of modernity and political hero worship, and those between the personal and political realm.” 

The Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University is directed by Harvey Mansfield. PCG Seminar talks are open to the public but RSVP is required. RSVP to pcg@gov.harvard.edu

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