The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers During the Great War

by Martha Hanna

Book Overview

Behind the fa ade of unity, the French intelligentsia was riven by the same fundamental divisions that had characterized it before the war. For example, the Republican Left argued that German nationalism and militarism began after Kant, with Fichte or Hegel, while the Catholic and nationalistic reactionary Right denounced Kant as the evil inspiration of France's liberal democracy and public school system. The heated rhetoric of the war and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674577558
• ISBN13: 9780674577558
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"