Alexandre Soljenitsyne, anyone? Obviously, Nietzsche. And, then, there is some important prophecy in Alexis de Tocqueville, Arendt, Simone Weil (the last two already mentioned), Raymond Aron and then, there is also, Husserl in his, Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man, a lecture that can be read online. There are many more known and…
Alexandre Soljenitsyne, anyone? Obviously, Nietzsche. And, then, there is some important prophecy in Alexis de Tocqueville, Arendt, Simone Weil (the last two already mentioned), Raymond Aron and then, there is also, Husserl in his, Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man, a lecture that can be read online. There are many more known and less known like, for example, Michael Sugrue who never wrote a book but his Princeton lectures in the 90's on the history of ideas are pure gold with many hints about the future. His lecture on Nietzsche conjures up the image of someone in the news today.
Alexandre Soljenitsyne, anyone? Obviously, Nietzsche. And, then, there is some important prophecy in Alexis de Tocqueville, Arendt, Simone Weil (the last two already mentioned), Raymond Aron and then, there is also, Husserl in his, Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man, a lecture that can be read online. There are many more known and less known like, for example, Michael Sugrue who never wrote a book but his Princeton lectures in the 90's on the history of ideas are pure gold with many hints about the future. His lecture on Nietzsche conjures up the image of someone in the news today.