Alain Finkielkraut
Alain Finkielkraut is a French essayist and public intellectual. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, many on the ideas of tradition and identitary violence, including Jewish identity and antisemitism, French colonialism, the mission of the French education system in immigrant assimilation, and the Yugoslav Wars. From 1989 to 2014, he was Professor of History of Ideas in the École Polytechnique department of humanities and social sciences. He was elected member of the Académie française on 10 April 2014. He often appears in France on talk shows.
As a thinker, Finkielkraut defines himself as being "at the same time classical and romantic". In a similar vein to some American scholarly views such as the criticism of the "School of Resentment" by Harold Bloom and of the "closing of the mind" by Allan Bloom, Finkielkraut deplores what he sees as the deterioration of Western tradition through multiculturalism and relativism. His self-declared humanism has been challenged at many times during his career and frequently deemed quite the opposite of humanism, especially by liberal activists.
As a thinker, Finkielkraut defines himself as being "at the same time classical and romantic". In a similar vein to some American scholarly views such as the criticism of the "School of Resentment" by Harold Bloom and of the "closing of the mind" by Allan Bloom, Finkielkraut deplores what he sees as the deterioration of Western tradition through multiculturalism and relativism. His self-declared humanism has been challenged at many times during his career and frequently deemed quite the opposite of humanism, especially by liberal activists.
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