"Better to be wrong with Sartre than right with Aron
": this formula - which alone sums up the blindness of the French intelligentsia in the face of communism - would come from Jean Daniel, who would one day have said that it is "
easier to be wrong with Sartre who is tantalizing, exuberant and effervescent rather than being right in the gloom with Aron
”.
The intellectual debate vomits the moderates.
Exaggeration, the spirit of system, the taste for polemic have more prestige than moderation, often assimilated to lukewarmness.
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In a small book with the manifesto title
Le Courage de la nuance
, the director of
Le Monde des livres,
Jean Birnbaum, combats this prejudice.
He explains why it is better to be right with Raymond Aron, but also Albert Camus, Georges Bernanos, Hannah Arendt, George Orwell Germaine Tillion and Roland Barthes.
Seven thinkers who have in common, according to the author, a taste for nuance.
A nuance that does not necessarily rhyme with the softness of a soft centrism, evidenced by the presence
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