
The End of the French Intellectual
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From his student years in Paris, Sand has repeatedly come up against the "great French thinkers." He has an intimate knowledge of the Parisian intellectual world and its little secrets, on which he draws to overturn certain myths attaching to the figure of the "intellectual" that France prides itself on having invented. Mixing reminiscence and analysis, he revisits a history that, from the Dreyfus Affair through to Charlie Hebdo, seems to him that of a long decline. As a long-time admirer of Zola, Sartre and Camus, Sand is staggered to see what the French intellectual has become today, in such characters as Michel Houellebecq, Eric Zemmour and Alain Finkielkraut. In a work that gives no quarter, and focuses particularly on the Judeophobia and Islamophobia of the elites, he casts on the French intellectual scene a gaze that is both disabused and mordant.
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- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedcation
- Contents
- Preface: The Intellectual as Object - a 'Selfie'?
- Introduction: The City and the Pen
- Part One: Intellectuals in the Torment of the Century
- Chapter 1: The Dreyfus Affairs: Human Rights or Author's Rights?
- Chapter 2: From Voltaire to Bourdieu: Who Are the 'True Intellectuals'?
- Chapter 3: Marx and His Descendants: Symbolic Capital or Political Capital?
- Chapter 4: The Discreet Charm of Fascism: Flirtation or Love Story?
- Chapter 5: Twilight of the Idols: The Critical Intellectual Domesticated?
- Part Two: Islamophobia and the Intellectuals' 'Rhinoceritis'
- Chapter 6: From Houellebecq to Charlie Hebdo: Submission or Humour?
- Chapter 7: From Finkielkraut to Zemmour: Decadence or Xenophobia?
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
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