Benda ∗treason∗ Of Intellectuals (LA Trahison Des Clercs) - Softcover

Benda, J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393004708 ISBN 13: 9780393004700

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1969

Synopsis

Treason

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Review:

"It is rich, quirky, erudite, digressive, and polemical. . . . Partisan in its claims for disinterestedness, it is ruthless in its defense of intellectual high-mindedness. . . . [G]iven the horrific events that unfolded in the decades following its publication, Benda's unremitting attack on the politicization of the intellect and ethnic separatism cannot but strike us as prescient. And given the continuing echo in our own time of the problems he anatomized, the relevance of his observations to our situation can hardly be doubted."

--Roger Kimball, The New Criterion

"It is rich, quirky, erudite, digressive, and polemical. . . . Partisan in its claims for disinterestedness, it is ruthless in its defense of intellectual high-mindedness. . . . [G]iven the horrific events that unfolded in the decades following its publication, Benda's unremitting attack on the politicization of the intellect and ethnic separatism cannot but strike us as prescient. And given the continuing echo in our own time of the problems he anatomized, the relevance of his observations to our situation can hardly be doubted."

--Roger Kimball, The New Criterion

-It is rich, quirky, erudite, digressive, and polemical. . . . Partisan in its claims for disinterestedness, it is ruthless in its defense of intellectual high-mindedness. . . . [G]iven the horrific events that unfolded in the decades following its publication, Benda's unremitting attack on the politicization of the intellect and ethnic separatism cannot but strike us as prescient. And given the continuing echo in our own time of the problems he anatomized, the relevance of his observations to our situation can hardly be doubted.-

--Roger Kimball, The New Criterion

About the Author:

Julien Benda (1867–1956) was a novelist and critic. Among his other books are The Yoke of Pity and Uriel’s Report.

Roger Kimball is co-editor and publisher of The New Criterion, president and publisher of Encounter Books, and an art critic for the London Spectator and National Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0393004708
• ISBN 13: 9780393004700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256