Treason of the Intellectuals

ISBN: 9781912475315 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2021 Autor: Julien Benda Editură: Eris Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 240 Stoc: Stoc limitat

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In an era when intellectual and artistic life is increasingly being distorted by political dogmatism, Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals is a classic that speaks with a new and extraordinary urgency.

Benda’s essay, published by ERIS in a new translation by David Broder, offers an incisive account of interwar Europe that ranges from the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and Georges Sorel to the activities of Charles Maurras and Benito Mussolini. It also serves, however, as a remarkably timely warning against the seduction of modern intellectuals by tribal loyalties and antipathies.

Rather than detaching themselves from communal ties as their forebears had done, Benda argues that twentieth-century European intellectuals willingly subordinated the disinterested pursuit of truth to the servicing of group interests (particularly the interests of their own nations and social classes). Partisan agendas had a corrosive effect not only on moral and political philosophy, but also on the writing of history and fiction.

With its penetrating analyses of nationalism and of the tensions between group identity and intellectual freedom, Treason of the Intellectuals is as necessary a book in the twenty-first century as it was in the twentieth.

Limba: Engleza
Autor: Julien Benda
Data Publicarii: 2021
Editura: Eris
Latime: 12.3
Inaltime: 19.6
Tip Coperta: Paperback
Nr Pag: 240
Traducatori: David Broder