Description
Product ID: | 9781786635082 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The End of the French Intellectual |
Subtitle: | From Zola to Houellebecq |
Authors: | Author: Shlomo Sand, David Fernbach |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, Social and cultural history, History of ideas, Social & cultural history, History of ideas, France |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia The best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the troublesome figure of the French intellectual. Revered throughout the Francophile world, France’s tradition of public intellectual engagement stems from Voltaire and Zola and runs through Sartre and Foucault to the present day. The intellectual enjoys a status as the ethical lodestar of his nation’s life, but, as Sand shows, the recent history of these esteemed figures shows how often, and how profoundly, they have fallen short of the ideal. |
Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-04-10 |