Why French Intellectual History Should Repeat Itself as Farce
Eric Fassin, 31 October 1996
Adventures on the Freedom Road: The French Intellectuals in the 20th Century
by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Richard Veasey.
Harvill, 434 pp., £20, December 1995,1 86046 035 6 Show More
by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Richard Veasey.
Harvill, 434 pp., £20, December 1995,
The Imaginary Jew
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Kevin O’Neill and David Suchoff.
Nebraska, 230 pp., £23.95, August 1994,0 8032 1987 3 Show More
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Kevin O’Neill and David Suchoff.
Nebraska, 230 pp., £23.95, August 1994,
The Defeat of the Mind
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Judith Friedlander.
Columbia, 165 pp., $15, May 1996,0 231 08023 9 Show More
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Judith Friedlander.
Columbia, 165 pp., $15, May 1996,
“... In lieu of Sartre and Raymond Aron, future historians of French intellectuals in the Eighties and Nineties may well be condemned to structuring their narratives around the post-Marx brothers of French intellectual life, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut. This is not a case simply of contemporary thinkers being dwarfed by the giants of the past – the familiar lament about the decline of French intellectuals is rather unfair ... ”
