Why French Intellectual History Should Repeat Itself as Farce
Eric Fassin, 31 October 1996
Adventures on the Freedom Road: The French Intellectuals in the 20th Century
by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Richard Veasey.
Harvill, 434 pp., £20, December 1995,1 86046 035 6 Show More
by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Richard Veasey.
Harvill, 434 pp., £20, December 1995,
The Imaginary Jew
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Kevin O’Neill and David Suchoff.
Nebraska, 230 pp., £23.95, August 1994,0 8032 1987 3 Show More
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Kevin O’Neill and David Suchoff.
Nebraska, 230 pp., £23.95, August 1994,
The Defeat of the Mind
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Judith Friedlander.
Columbia, 165 pp., $15, May 1996,0 231 08023 9 Show More
by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Judith Friedlander.
Columbia, 165 pp., $15, May 1996,
“... be called as a witness in the contemporary American quarrel concerning multiculturalism by both David Suchoff and Judith Friedlander, the translators of (respectively) The Imaginary Jew and The Defeat of the Mind, and be ascribed a different position by each. (Interestingly, the 1988 English translation of The Defeat of the Mind, entitled The Undoing ... ”
