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« Al-Masri al-Youm's English edition | Main | Napoleon's Egypt »
Wednesday
Jul252007

Nouveaux philosophes, neo-conservateurs

This fine piece on that moment in French intellectual history, in 1977, that saw the birth of the "nouveaux philosophes" should have pointed out that many of these philosophers (a title undeserved by BHL at least) are now the French equivalent of neo-conservatives: BHL as "liberal interventionist" or Glucksmann as Sarkoziste.

Reader Comments (1)

One of the earliest critiques of the "nouveaux philosophes" was Gilles Deleuze, a real philosopher this one - see here: http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze9.htm :

" Que penses-tu des « nouveaux philosophes » ?

Rien. Je crois que leur pensée est nulle. Je vois deux raisons possibles à cette nullité. D'abord ils procèdent par gros concepts, aussi gros que des dents creuses, LA loi, LE pouvoir, LE maître, LE monde, LA rébellion, LA foi, etc. Ils peuvent faire ainsi des mélanges grotesques, des dualismes sommaires, la loi et le rebelle, le pouvoir et l'ange. En même temps, plus le contenu de pensée est faible, plus le penseur prend d'importance, plus le sujet d'énonciation se donne de l'importance par rapport aux énoncés vides..."

Jul 26, 2007 at 2:21 PM | Unregistered CommenterIbn Kafka

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