TREASON OF THE INTELLECTUALS

This book offers an incisive account of interwar Europe and a warning against the lure of tribal loyalties and antipathies.

About the author

Julien Benda (1867-1956) was a novelist and critic. His polemical writings ranged from Dialogues in Byzantium (on the Dreyfus affair) to an appraisal of the philosophy of Henri Bergson; in later life he was a fierce critic of the Vichy Republic. Among his other books are The Yoke of Pity, Uriel's Report, and Exercises of a Man Buried Alive.

David Broder is a widely published translator and the author of First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy. He is currently Europe Editor at Jacobin.

Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and a prizewinning essayist for The New York Review of Books and other publications worldwide. His books include The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction; The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West; The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics; and The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Julien Benda
• Assisted by: David Broder (Translation)
• Publisher: Eris
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2021
• EAN: 9781912475315
• ISBN: 978-1-912475-31-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 195 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 257 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)