These French intellectuals who no longer recognize their left

They loved each other so much… Between the left and the intellectuals, it was a honeymoon of almost a century. Since the Dreyfus affair, the intellectual left reigned almost unchallenged in the life of ideas. This hegemony had become almost total after the war, following the discredit cast on conservative thought by the Vichy regime. Maurras is no longer necessary and Sartre crushes Camus. The great masters of thought were called Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault. Only the centrists François Mauriac, Raymond Aron and Jean-François Revel were tolerated on an ideological folding seat

But what about today?

,” said sociologist Geoffroy de Lagasnerie without laughing in

again recently.

However, in the list he quoted…

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