French essayist Samuel Fitoussi publishes Why intellectuals get it wrong, This is an incisive essay on the mechanisms that drive some brilliant minds to defend absurd ideas, with sometimes disastrous consequences.
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Eugénie Bastié: «The field of ideas is more fragmented than ever».»
par Jonas Follonierpar Jonas FollonierEugénie Bastié, a journalist in the «Ideas» section of the French daily Le Figaro, offers her diagnosis of the «war of ideas» in France and the theme of immigration, which is present in its own way in the French intellectual debate and reveals new cleavages.
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Le Regard Libre N° 48 - Giovanni F. Ryffel
Scientists and humanists: two separate worlds? The former are often unaware that they are intellectuals in spite of themselves, as Sartre put it, while the latter are easily reduced to the category of «literary», as if other disciplines hardly existed. But how did we get here? Is this the only possible distinction?
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