Intellectuals, both in the west and in china, usually represent a force for progress, but there is still a gap between the public and intellectuals, which can lead to misunderstandings and prejudice. So what kind of group is this? What's the point of their existence? In the age of entertainment to death, intellectuals are dead? The shanghai bookshop press, in partnership with a number of friends, has launched a joint book sheet that allows us to travel from france with all the questions of the present, to explore the spirit of intellectuals at different times and to return to the age in which they live, to see their important role in european culture and political life and to examine the links between their words and deeds and history. Take you back to the intellectuals。
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The end of french intellectuals? Zorra to verlebeck
Israel
Schlomo sande
Plum, please
Shanghai bookshop press
Published: january 2023
The french intellectuals have been seen by the world as examples of the responsibility of human beings courageously involved in public space. However, from the zorra era of intellectuals to the current flow of verlebeke, after a stratum of fascism, anti-colonialism and ethnic conflict, the famous israeli historian schromer sande saw the continued decline and end of the “greatness” of french intellectuals。
Starting at the end of the nineteenth century with an open confrontation between zorra and others against “semitism”, sand has refined the concept of “intellectuals” and its structure, decrypting the little-known intellectual personality of cultural leaders and using voltaire, rousseau, tocqueville and others to profile the essence of the group. Intellectuals, with their own cultural activities and social intervention, build up prestige capital and pursue independence and self-government, while they struggle to escape the role of “dominant in the ruling class”. In a contemporary context in which the relationship between intellectuals and power-holders has changed, it seems difficult to create real public intellectuals in the social sciences, in which information is fragmented, knowledge is thinner and entertainment is paramount. "the french intellectual is dead? The intellectual spirit is dead?" these are two of the most important questions for modern society。
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Middle ages intellectuals
Jacques legoff
Hong jianhong translation
Chinese teacher training university press
Publication: september 2021
The term “intellectual” is a modern term that is rich and complex. The term “intellectuals” in this book refers to the professions of thinking and teaching of their ideas that emerged in the middle ages as cities developed. This class emerged early in the middle ages, developed in the 12th century urban schools and flourished in universities from the 13th century. Légor examined these “traffickers” in terms of social, political, religious, economic and ideological culture. To some extent, the book constructs “the anthropology of medieval intellectuals” and “an introduction to the history of western intellectuals”。
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Unfinished past: french intellectuals 1944-1956
Tony jute
Li peng
Sanhui book
Published: may 2016
After the second world war, french intellectuals played a uniquely important role in european cultural and political life, and tony jute analysed the greatest conflict in the intellectual community in this classic book. The book also provides a detailed picture of the situations in which intellectuals staged and fought for power. It is concerned not only with fashionable “existenceism” figures — sart, kamu and boovova — but also with important catholic philosophers, neutral press, literary critics and poets。
Although structured in a broad chronological order, it is not a historical narrative, but is always called intellectual independence as a thread, a collection of articles expressing jute's understanding of the role and responsibilities of intellectuals, and a study of the moral situation of the french intellectual community after the war。
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The heavy burum, jamu, alon and france 20th century
Tony jute
Zongxi translation
Sanhui book
Publication: september 2014
The burden of responsibility is one of tony jute's two most famous books. In the book, he selected albert jamu, leon bloom, and raymond allon, the three best representatives of french spirituality, to return to the age in which they lived, to examine the links between their words and deeds and history, and to discuss many important topics in the history of intellectuals and ideas。
Tony jute believes that the core word for evaluating intellectuals should be “responsibility”. The three intellectuals, who share the moral personality of “courage and integrity” in a very different way, after engaging in public life, place the interests of the individual under public responsibility, speak with an independent conscience, influence real politics by words and deeds in a coherent manner, and correct the fallacy of the times, at a heavy cost, for what is called the “burden of responsibility”。
They live in an era of irresponsible behaviour, but more importantly, “they have experienced and rejected this era of irresponsible behaviour”. It can be said that they represent not only a unique and enlightening voice in modern french thought and political culture, but also many of the best and most enduring values of modern society and thought — past and present。
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"intellectual opium."
By raymond aron
Mr. Guo xhang
Forest press
Publication: june 2012
The book the opium of intellectuals is a book by raymond aron of french reflections on french disease in the early years of the cold war in response to the situation in france, particularly in its intellectual world. In the book " the opium of the intellectuals " , the author examined and criticized the extreme french intellectuals themselves, as an important reference in the history of modern french thought and as a well-known book of intellectual sociology. In many cases, profound ideas tend to take one-sided positions, as do left-wing works and right-wing works. So even after a few decades, we will be surprised by the soberness and sharpness of alon's work。
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Death and life of progressive intellectuals:
"the new philosophy of vienna and the death of srick"
David edmunds
Xu jin-wu
Shanghai trinity bookshop
Published: january 2023
The book draws upon the “vienna circle” formed by a group of intellectuals from the scientific and philosophical worlds active in the two wars, and outlines the associated “hard culture” spiraling around for some 70 years, involving both our well-known pivotal figures russell, floyd, wittgenstein, gothl, popple, bauhaus and nunat, karnap and others. The flames of the old continent, which they lit together, have been extinguished by the winds and winds of the times. Are the flames of the scattered stars gone? Not only does it cover europe and america, but it also includes new weather in science and literature, and more dramatic changes, as well as the hard core of the new post-war philosophy... The character determines fate, and it is also linked to individual cultural views. One of those symbolic figures, perhaps the gentle, great academic star, scherik, was the only one who was killed without cause。
