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Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools. He argues that a cult of success and science drained this Marxism of its critical impulse and that the successes of the Russian and Chinese revolutions encouraged a mechanical and fruitless mimicry. He then turns to a Western alternative that neither succumbed to the spell of success nor obliterated the individual in the name of science. In the nineteenth century, this Western Marxism already diverged from Russian Marxism in its interpretation of Hegel and its evaluation of Engels' orthodox Marxism. The author follows the evolution of this minority tradition and its opposition to authoritarian forms of political theory and practice.

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“Everything that Russell Jacoby writes is well worth reading. He’s smart, independent, lively, well-informed and alive with the joy of intellectual combat. Agree with him or not—he makes you think and think hard about any and every subject he takes up.” —Mark Edmundson, Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA “For over fifty years, Russell Jacoby has been one of our most relentlessly contrarian critics. In lucid and punchy—ok, often snarky—prose, he has lamented the decline of genuine intellectuals, exposed the pretenses of academia, and challenged pieties on both the right and left, while all the time refusing to give up on utopian ideals. Gathering his scattershot efforts into one resounding blast of critical energy, Intellectuals in Politics and Academia is easy to argue with, but hard to put down”. —Martin Jay Ehrman, Professor of European History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA “Russell Jacoby is one of America’s very finest essayists and this collection shows his masterly combination of style and substance. His illuminating investigations of leading thinkers and his biting critique of academic conceits are alone worth the price of the book. Its range is exceptional and, as always, Jacoby shows respect for the utopian imagination and those intellectuals who defend it. These essays are provocative and, just as important, a great read. Don’t miss this book!” —Stephen Eric Bronner, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies, Rutgers University, USA This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby’s seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term “public intellectual” and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, as well as interventions on violence, utopia and multiculturalism. Russell Jacoby is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, USA, and the author of the author of nine books, including Repression of Psychoanalysis (1983), Bloodlust (2011), and most recently On Diversity (2020).

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À l'heure où s'exacerbent les extrémismes, où attentats, guerres civiles, répressions font rage, on a tôt fait d'assimiler cette violence inouïe au choc des cultures et à la peur de la différence. Prenant l'exact contrepied du discours ambiant, l'un des plus grands intellectuels américains contemporains bouscule les idées reçues et relance le débat : c'est de la peur du semblable que naît la violence. Convoquant aussi bien la philosophie que la psychanalyse freudienne et les sciences humaines, Russell Jacoby revisite cinq mille ans d'Histoire, du mythe fondateur d'Abel et Caïn à la Saint-Barthélemy, de la Shoah au génocide rwandais, et propose de nouvelles pistes de réflexion passionnantes. Pourquoi les guerres civiles sont-elles les plus meurtrières ? Comment expliquer que les massacres les plus abominables aient été perpétrés par des bourreaux proches de leurs victimes ? Aurions-nous plus à craindre de notre propre voisin ? Aujourd'hui plus que jamais, il y a urgence à interroger les ressorts de la violence, pour mieux oeuvrer pour la paix.

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