Le Figaro. -
François-Xavier Bellamy
, we can find in your first book
The disinherited
a certain relationship with
The defeat of thought
by
Alain Finkielkraut
.
Was this book a source of inspiration for you?
Francois-Xavier Bellamy.
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Reading
The Defeat of Thought
made a deep impression on me.
I lived as a teacher what Alain Finkielkraut had announced, namely the renunciation of the Western world to “life with thought”, to the search for truth, to intellectual rigor.
We see this every day in the political debate, but this phenomenon begins above all at school, with the transmission crisis that we are experiencing.
I read this book by Alain Finkielkraut when I was a student, and I still remember what an event it was for me.
I had been struck by the very great lucidity of this prediction, which must be taken seriously if we want to reconstitute an intellectual life, a life of the spirit, a transmission of...
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