Treason of the Intellectuals: La Trahison Des Clercs
by:
Julien Benda (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393004700 (0393004708)
Publish date: January 1st 1969
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
A passionate, poorly argued hodge-podge on the anti-enlightenment trends of the interwar French intelligentsia that gathered around men like Charles Maurras and L' Action Française. The thesis is interesting -- though not entirely persuasive -- but the book is better known than read. The Introduct...