by Alain Finkielkraut · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070709458
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«La Défaite de la pensée» is the philosophical essay by Alain Finkielkraut, published by Gallimard in paperback (168 pages, in French).
Finkielkraut starts from an observation: activities in which thought plays no part are labeled cultural. The essay analyzes how culture, understood as life with thought, ends up reduced to consumption and advertising, and why the demand for truth and critical judgment gives way to the cult of the immediate and of difference.
Originally published in 1987, it bears the subtitle «essai» and belongs to Gallimard's nrf collection; the edition includes bibliographic references.
Aimed at readers interested in philosophy, sociology and cultural criticism, and in the French debate on modernity.
Alain Luc Finkielkraut is a French essayist, radio producer, and public intellectual. Since 1986, he has been the host of Répliques, a talk show broadcast weekly on France Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Académie Française in 2014.
