Le hasard ou la nécessité ? une histoire en chantier : l'histoire des intellectuels
Year: 1986
Type: article
Abstract: Chance or necessity ? History in the making : the history of intellectuals, Jean-François Sirinelli. This is a historiographic record of the study of intellectuals and their role in French society since the Dreyfus affair, through the « Copernican revolution » of the antifascist and anticommunist struggle of 1919-1939. In order to deal with the real question - how does knowledge corne to the scholar ? — it is necessary to go beyond the history of ideas and even the genealogical history of the life of the mind. One needs to undertake a « geodesy » which would mix the study of individual paths, informai sociabilities, and faithfulness between successive generations. Thus, in the long run, a second, more political question could be ans-wered : what is the intellectuals' « power » in France ?
Author: Jean-François Sirinelli
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2014783769