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French intellectuals: Dominators and dominees.(new book sparks renewed interest in intellectualism)(Brief Article)(Review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19981024
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ARE intellectuals making a comeback in France? Judging by the interest in Pierre Bourdieu's latest book, "La domination masculine" (Seuil; FFr85), you might very well think so.

By "intellectual", people in France have commonly meant a writer or thinker with strong public commitments in politics. The tradition goes back at least to Emile Zola, who published a famous defence of Captain Dreyfus, a French Jew wrongly accused of treason. In the 1920s and 1930s, the fashionable thing for clever young writers was to be right-wing, the more extreme the better. After the ...

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