Zola - An Intellectual Quest for Justice

This book examines the figure of the public intellectual through the work of Emile Zola in the Dreyfus Affair. It analyses Zoläs famous letter ¿J¿Accuse¿ supporting Alfred Dreyfus and its philosophical and political consequences for the intellectual world, including Indian public intellectuals.

List of contents

Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction: Reading “J’Accuse” Today
1 The Universal Meaning of “J’Accuse”
2 Dissent and Emancipation
3 Mapping Dissent: Reading Zola in India
4 Reinventing the Intellectual
Conclusion: Mysterious Power of Ideas
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian Canadian philosopher. He is presently the Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic work in promoting dialogue among cultures and his advocacy for nonviolence. More recently, he is the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. Some of his most recent publications are Gadflies in the Public Space (2016), The Decline of Civilization (2017), Letters to a Young Philosopher (2017), On Forgiveness and Revenge (2017), and The Global Gandhi: Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy (2018).

Summary

This book examines the figure of the public intellectual through the work of Emile Zola in the Dreyfus Affair. It analyses Zola’s famous letter “J’Accuse” supporting Alfred Dreyfus and its philosophical and political consequences for the intellectual world, including Indian public intellectuals.

Product details

• Authors: Ramin Jahanbegloo, Ramin (Jindal Global University Jahanbegloo, Jahanbegloo Ramin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032403984
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240398-4
• No. of pages: 91
• Series: Peacemakers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Europe, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Historiography, Western philosophy from c 1800, Politics and government, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -