Martin Jay
Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian.
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Quotes
[edit]- Can, in short, the world really tolerate dissent from, say, the Paris Climate Agreement by a rogue nation truculently claiming its narrow interests come first, and whose distorted norms allow it to prioritize short-term economic growth over the survival of the planet as we have known it?
- "Martin Jay reviews The End of Progress", Critical Inquiry (April 11, 2018)
- When it comes to ideas rather than sources or previous analyses, I often will begin actually writing an essay or chapter before my own are fully cooked—I find I can formulate my argument only through the process of articulating it, not before[1]
About Jay
[edit]- ...Jay’s keynote showed Jewish intellectuals thinking about the Holocaust as a case of more than merely banal evil, in which the victims were more than scapegoats. They were rather chosen precisely because of the pivotal role which Jews played in the progress of civilization.[2]
