Systems and Debates
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TN: Laura de Noves (1310–1348) was the wife of Count Hugues de Sade (Marquis de Sade’s ancestor). She may have been the Laura that Humanist poet Francesco Petrarch wrote so extensively about; however, no positive confirmation has ever been given in this regard. What is certain is that Petrarch’s Laura had a great influence on his life and lyrics.
[←861 ]
TN: ‘To Die of Love’ is a Franco-Italian movie that came out in 1971.
[←862 ]
TN: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, is also known as Cytherea because of her alleged birth in the sea near Cythera.
[←863 ]
TN: The Demon of Goodness.
[←864 ]
TN: Against Love, Youth and Plebes.
[←865 ]
TN: A History of Being.
[←866 ]
TN: This Is Not a Life.
[←867 ]
TN: A Clear View of the Left.
[←868 ]
TN: Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre (1st April, 1753–26th February, 1821) was a French-speaking Savoyard philosopher, author, solicitor and diplomat who promoted social hierarchy and a return to monarchy in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
[←869 ]
TN: St. Petersburg Dialogues.
[←870 ]
TN: Edmund Burke (12th January, 1730–9th July, 1797) was an Irish statesman and a native of Dublin. He was a writer, an orator, a philosopher and a political theorist who remained deeply sceptical about the benefits of democracy.
[←871 ]
TN: Louis de Bonald, whose full name was Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald (2nd October, 1754–23rd November, 1840), was a French philosopher and politician whose stances were counter-revolutionary.
[←872 ]
TN: Juan Donoso Cortés, marqués de Valdegamas (6th May, 1809–3rd May, 1853) was a conservative Spanish author, Catholic political theorist, and diplomat.
[←873 ]
TN: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (13th December, 1908–3rd October, 1995) was a Brazilian intellectual and Catholic activist who espoused traditionalist views.
[←874 ]
TN: José Ortega y Gasset (9th May, 1883–18th October, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist whose thought system was largely rooted in the importance of life itself.
[←875 ]
TN: Jean-Marie Domenach (13th February, 1922–5th July, 1997) was a French author and intellectual. He was both a Leftist and a Catholic thinker.
[←876 ]
TN: Utopia, the Perennial Heresy.
[←877 ]
TN: Open Letter to the Supporters of the Left.
[←878 ]
TN: Pierre Jules Marie Raoul Neraud Mouton de Boisdeffre (1926–2002) was a French diplomat, writer and critic.
[←879 ]
TN: Lyndon Baines Johnson (27th August, 1908–22nd January, 1973) was an American politician who became the 36th President of the United States (from 1963 to 1969).
[←880 ]
TN: In the story of Antigone, Crean plays the role of a rather tragic hero.
[←881 ]
TN: Beethoven initially dedicated his famed Third Symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, who he considered to be the embodiment of the democratic and anti-monarchical ideals of the French Revolution.
[←882 ]
TN: Alexander the Great.
[←883 ]
TN: Probably the Place du Châtelet in Paris.
[←884 ]
TN: Henri François Simonet (10th May, 1931–15th February, 1996) was a Belgian politician.
[←885 ]
TN: A French author.
[←886 ]
TN: Struggle.
[←887 ]
TN: Bernard Faÿ (3rd April, 1893–31st December, 1978) was a French historian, an anti-Masonic polemicist who believed in a worldwide Jewish-Freemason conspiracy, and a Vichy official.
[←888 ]
TN: Freemasonry and the Intellectual Revolution of the 18th Century.
[←889 ]
TN: Antoine de Rivarol (26th June, 1753–11th April, 1801) was a French Royalist and an author during the Revolutionary period.
[←890 ]
TN: Louis XVI (23rd August, 1754–21st January, 1793), born Louis-Auguste, was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution, He died under the revolutionaries’ guillotine.
[←891 ]
TN: A Clear View of the Left.
[←892 ]
TN: ‘The Cabal of the Devout’ and ‘Why Be Philosophical?’ are considered to be Revel’s greatest works.
[←893 ]
TN: The History of Western Philosophy.
[←894 ]
TN: The General’s Style.
[←895 ]
TN: In France.
[←896 ]
TN: An Open Letter to the Right.
[←897 ]
TN: The Totalitarian Temptation.
[←898 ]
TN: Neither Marx Nor Jesus.
[←899 ]
TN: Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev (23rd September, 1883–25th August, 1936), born Hirsch Apfelbaum, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. He was among the main defendants in a 1936 show trial known as the Trial of the Sixteen, which marked the start of the so-called Great Terror in the USSR and led to his execution the day after his conviction in August 1936.
[←900 ]
TN: Leon Trotsky (7th November, 1879–21st August, 1940) was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein. He was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, he later developed his own system of Marxist thought known as Trotskyism. He was subsequently expelled, exiled and assassinated.
[←901 ]
TN: Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik (12th May, 1938–12th November, 1980) was a Russian author and dissident.
[←902 ]
TN: Geoffrey Edgar Solomon Gorer (26th March, 1905–24th May, 1985) was an English anthropologist and writer, whose unique system involved the application of psychoanalytic techniques to anthropology.
[←903 ]
TN: Robert de Herte is Alain de Benoist’s pseudonym.
[←904 ]
TN: Alias Giorgio Locchi.
[←905 ]
TN: America’s Tale.
[←906 ]
TN: Thomas Griffith worked as a senior staff editor and writer at Time magazine. He passed away in 2002, at the age of eighty-six.
[←907 ]
TN: Respectively the 1st and 5th US president.
[←908 ]
TN: Thomas Jefferson (13th April, 1743–4th July, 1826) was an American Founding Father and the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. He later became the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
[←909 ]
TN: Translated as The Hour of Decision by C. F. Atkinson.
[←910 ]
TN: Arthur G. Gish (15th August, 1939–28th July, 2010) was an American peace activist, preacher, author and public speaker.
[←911 ]
TN: Thomas Müntzer (c. December 1489–27th May, 1525) was a German preacher and radical theologian.
[←912 ]
TN: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (24th September, 1896–21st December, 1940) was an American writer. He is considered to be part of the ‘Lost Generation’ of the 1920s.
[←913 ]
TN: Stanley Hoffmann (27th November, 1928–13th September, 2015) was the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor emeritus at Harvard University.
[←914 ]
TN: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (6th September, 1757–20th May, 1834), known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. A close friend of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette played a key role in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830.
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TN: Daniel Guérin (19th May, 1904–14th April, 1988) was a French anarcho-communist author best known for his work Anarchism: From Theory to Practice. He was also famous for his defence of free love and homosexuality.
[←916 ]
TN: Where Is the American People Heading?
[←917 ]
TN: Californian Journal.
[←918 ]
TN: Annie Kriegel, née Annie Becker (9 September 1926–26 August 1995), was a French historian, a leading expert on communist studies and the history of Communism, a cofounder (1982) of the academic journal Communisme and a columnist for Le Figaro.
[←919 ]
TN: Communisms in the French Mirror.
[←920 ]
TN: Why France.
[←921 ]
TN: The Founding Myths of the American Nation.
[←922 ]
TN: The Stables of the West.
[←923 ]
TN: Sun Lounger Intellectuals.
[←924 ]
TN: An influential journal launched by Péguy in 1900, whose title can be translated as ‘Fortnightly Journal’.
[←925 ]
TN: Our Youth.
[←926 ]
TN: Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (2nd September, 1852–25th December, 1935) was a French novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on five occasions.
[←927 ]
TN: Intellectual Aristocracy.
[←928 ]
TN: Intellectual France.
[←929 ]
TN: Effort.
[←930 ]
TN: Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28th September, 1841–24th November, 1929) was a French politician, physician, and journalist. He was Prime Minister of France during the First World War. As a leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in the politics of the French Third Republic.
[←931 ]
TN: The Intellectuals’ Manifesto.
[←932 ]
TN: I accuse.
[←933 ]
TN: Alfred Dreyfus (9th October, 1859–12th July, 1935) was a French Jewish artillery officer whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the tensest political dramas in modern French history, with a wide echo across all of Europe. Known today as the ‘Dreyfus affair’, the incident eventually ended with Dreyfus’s complete vindication.
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TN: The Betrayal of Clerical Values.
[←935 ]
TN: Too Few Men, Too Many Ideas.
[←936 ]
TN: The Crusade of Drawn-Out Figures.
[←937 ]
TN: The Right-Minded’s Greatest Fear.
[←938 ]
TN: Intellectual Comfort.
[←939 ]
TN: The Opium of the Intellectuals.
[←940 ]
TN: Functionary Socrates.
[←941 ]
TN: Or moths, rather.
[←942 ]
TN: Words.
[←943 ]
TN: What Is Ideology?
[←944 ]
TN: Jean-Luc Chalumeau is a French art historian and critic.
[←945 ]
TN: Critical analysis and hair-splitting — casuistic argumentation.
[←946 ]
TN: Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund (11th September, 1903–6th August, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.
[←947 ]
TN: Paul Claudel (6th August, 1868–23rd February, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat.
[←948 ]
TN: The Fight for the Larzac was a non-violent civil disobedience action against the extension of an already existing military base on the Larzac plateau in South Western France. It lasted for a period of ten years, from 1971 to 1981, and was ultimately crowned with success.
[←949 ]
TN: Cinema and Politics.
[←950 ]
TN: Christian Zimmer worked as a chronicler at Temps Modernes (1965–1978) before becoming a cinematographic critic.
[←951 ]
TN: Born Gerhart Hirsch, André Gorz (9th February, 1923–22nd September, 2007) is more commonly known by his pen names Gérard Horst and Michel Bosquet. He was an Austrian social philosopher and journalist, and the co-founder of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly (1964).
[←952 ]
TN: Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (10th April, 1932–15th October, 1990) was a Lebanese-born French stage and film actress, a film director and a feminist.
[←953 ]
TN: The ‘Lip affair’ refers to a strike that took place in the Lip de Besançon watch factory. The struggle began in the early 1970s and lasted until mid-1976, mobilising tens of thousands across both France and Europe. More than 100,000 protesters took part in the great Lip March that was organised on 29th September, 1973.
[←954 ]
TN: Alain Krivine is a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France.
[←955 ]
TN: A French communist politician.
[←956 ]
TN: Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a French-German politician. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for ‘Danny the Red’) because of both his politics and the colour of his hair.
[←957 ]
TN: Nickel-plated feet.
[←958 ]
TN: Schultz’s Peanuts.
[←959 ]
TN: A French weekly magazine published by the Revolutionary Communist League or LCR from 1968 to 2009.
[←960 ]
TN: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (14th March, 1908–3rd May, 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
[←961 ]
TN: Humanism and Terror.
[←962 ]
TN: A French philosopher.
[←963 ]
TN: Sempé is a French cartoonist.
[←964 ]
TN: Je suis partout was a French newspaper founded by Jean Fayard and launched on 29th November, 1930.
[←965 ]
TN: This is a reference to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV’s journey to Canossa Castle, Italy, where Pope Gregory VII was staying as the guest of Margravine Matilda of Tuscany, in the hope of having his excommunication overturned.
[←966 ]
TN: Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (2nd March, 1760–5th April, 1794) was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution.
[←967 ]
TN: Cinema and Politics.
[←968 ]
TN: Michel Mardore is the pen name of Michel Jean Guinamant (22nd October, 1935–18th November, 2009), who was a French novelist, film critic, photographer and director.
[←969 ]
TN: Fiction-Criticism.
[←970 ]
TN: Born on 5th April, 1935, Michel Mourlet is a writer, journalist and French cinema theorist.
[←971 ]
TN: French Thought, from Sartre to Foucault.
[←972 ]
TN: Moralism and Society. Week of Marxist Thought 1974.
[←973 ]
TN: The World of Education.
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