The mobilization of intellect : French scholars and writers during the Great War
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The mobilization of intellect : French scholars and writers during the Great War
Harvard University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-285) and index
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Behind the facade of unity, the French intelligentsia was riven by the same fundamental divisions that had characterized it before the war. For example, the Republican Left argued that German nationalism and militarism began after Kant, with Fichte or Hegel, while the Catholic and nationalistic reactionary Right denounced Kant as the evil inspiration of France's liberal democracy and public school system. The heated rhetoric of the war and the unbearable loss of young lives, says Hanna, lent weight to a redefinition of French culture in national terms-and this, ironically, ended in the cultural conservatism of Vichy France.
This is the first study of the power of French pens and words during and after the Great War. It is a contribution to French and European history as well as to intellectual history.
Table of Contents
Introduction * The Dischord of the Elders * The Impiety of War * The Kultur War * The Controversy over Kant * The Classicist Revival *"Toujours la Science" Epilogue * Note on Primary Sources * Notes * Index
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