The end of the French intellectual : from Zola to Houellebecq /
Internationally acclaimed Israeli historian Shlomo Sand made his mark with books such as The Invention of the Jewish People and The Invention of the Land of Israel. Returning here to an early fascination, he turns his attention to the figure of the French intellectual. From his student years in Pari...
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Brooklyn, New York : Verso Books,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: the intellectual as object / a 'Selfie'?
- Introduction: the city and the pen
- Intellectuals in the torment of the century
- The Dreyfus affairs: human rights or author's rights?
- From Voltaire to Bourdieu: who are the 'true intellectuals'?
- Marx and his descendants: symbolic capital or political capital?
- The discreet charm of fascism: flirtation or love story?
- Twilight of the idols: the critical intellectual domesticated?
- Islamophobia and the intellectuals' 'rhinoceritis'
- From Houellebecq to Charlie Hebdo: submission or humour?
- From Finkielkraut to Zemmour: decadence or xenophobia?.