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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Alain Badiou wants to see leftist intellectuals dissappear
In an interview conducted by Nicolas Weill, French philosopher Alain Badiou reflects on the end of the French leftist intellectual. "The rally to Mr Sarkozy's camp symbolises the possibility for intellectuals and philosophers to become from now on, classic reactionaries... . Part and parcel of this rally is the corrupt company of the rich and powerful, xenophobia and American policies worship. Before, when an intellectual was on the right, he had complexes. Even Raymond Aron had them! The classic leftist intellectual character was created during period after the war. We are going to see - this is at least what I want - the death of the leftist intellectual, who will founder at the same time as the left as a whole, before being reborn from the ashes like the Phoenix! This renaissance can only come about in one of two ways: either political radicalism of a new order, or reactionary rallying. Nothing in between."
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Elfriede Jelinek on the myth of Austrian innocence
Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Prize Winner for literature, evokes her book 'The Children of the Dead( in an interview with Nicolas Weill. The Austrian author explains that it her duty to tear 'the mask of innocence' off Austria. "As a figure, Haider, that is to say the new political right that he once personified, signifies the continuity of a modern fascism dressed up as a young and seductive 'Führer'. With Haider, a fashionable, athletic youth replaced the old Nazis with all of their war stories, as the representative promoter of this modern fascism. This kind of creature and its perennial resurgence, naturally scratches away at Austria's mythical eternal innocence, long maintained, up until the 1980s ... , an image of Austria that had edified itself as an isolated victim, a helpless little country assaulted by Hitler ... ."
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Saul Friedländer and the solitude of 'The Righteous'
Saul Friedländer, a Franco-Israeli Holocaust specialist, underlines in an interview with Nicolas Weill the lack of collective solidarity towards Jews during the Second World War. "The fact that there were not thousands of people to stand up against these crimes does not surprise me. It is clear that fear reigned over everyone and that one put oneself first. But the fact that there was so little protest and solidarity on an ecclesiastic and intellectual level is surprising. It goes to show the Shoah was a global phenomenon. Of course something was needed to ignite it, but a lot of dead wood and bracken was needed for the fire to take. There was no group in all of Europe, not a single one, that manifested its solidarity with the Jews. It is true that there were 'The Righteous' [non-Jews who saved persecuted Jews]. But they were heroic individuals, not social groups."
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The specificity of French colonisation
The American researcher Mary Lewis (Harvard) compares French colonial history with that of other European countries. "For the other imperial powers, colonisation is not accompanied by a republican ideal. But the difference has to do not so much with colonisation itself, as with decolonisation. With British decolonisation, there was nothing comparable to either the war in Indochina or the Algerian war. The importance of these conflicts in our appreciation and comparative perception of the colonial pasts of these two powers is undeniable. When one re-reads the recent parliamentary debates on the 'positive role' of the French overseas presence, one is struck by the weight of this trauma. ... History is not written in the same manner that one composes a parliamentary majority. Passing a value judgment on a series of historical events can prove rather dangerous."
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