Eugénie Bastié's book on the “war of ideas”, and even more on those who sell it, the intellectuals, opens on a symbolic scene which says a lot about the status in contemporary France of these “thinkers of profession ”, as Nizan said, status made of both prestige and powerlessness.
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Three days after the sacking of the Champs-Élysées by the “yellow vests”, on March 20, 2019, President Macron receives, over eight hours, a skewer of sixty-seven intellectuals, to talk about the state of France.
The President of the Republic, who has received many trades in order to drown the fire of the "yellow vests" under a flood of words, could not exclude intellectuals, no more than other representatives of the middle classes.
But, while most professions are capable of appointing representatives, each of the guests - I had cautiously declined - is an SME on its own;
unable to delegate to spokespersons, each of them will have
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