The End of the French Intellectual keyword-state-and-society Beginning with a concise biography

Beginning with a concise biography of his subject

Guy Standing argues for a complex egalitarianism

While the intelligentsia was watching its most treasured dream disintegrate

From the illusion of theatre and the spectacle of statecraft to the psychological theatre of inhibition and emotion

There are portraits of Gavril Popov

The End of the French Intellectual keyword-state-and-society Beginning with a concise biographyInternationally acclaimed Israeli historian Shlomo Sand made his mark with books such as The Invention of the Jewish People and The Invention of the Land of Israel. Returning here to an early fascination, he turns his attention to the figure of the French intellectual. From his student years in Paris, Sand has repeatedly come up against the "great French thinkers." He has an intimate knowledge of the Parisian intellectual world and its little secrets,