Bildung
: a word that only German scholars know;
and the readers of the great German novelists, Theodor Fontane and Thomas Mann.
Bildung
is education, culture and training at the same time, as our translators explain to us from the first page of the book.
Bildung
was of course in the original title of this book:
bildung
abandoned,
bildung
rejected,
bildung
despised,
bildung
martyred but
bildung
standing,
bildung
...
Konrad Paul Liessmann wrote a formidable charge against the progressives;
in France, it would have been cataloged in the “new reactions”.
But Liessmann is an Austrian who can snort freely
If I allow myself to act in this way, it is because our author himself does not deprive himself of handling irony with grating efficiency.
And if I play on a Franco-German register, it is because the themes of his work evoke well-known French authors: the Finkielkraut of
La Défaite de la Pensee
or the Régis Debray of
L'Éloge des frontières
.
Konrad Paul Liessmann wrote a formidable charge against the progressives;
in France, it would have been cataloged in the “new reactions”.
But Liessmann is an Austrian philosopher who can snort freely,
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