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April 16, 2013
in European History, History, Humanities, Literature

The Arts, Occupied: France’s Shameful Peace with the Nazis

April 16, 2013
in European History, History, Humanities, Literature

Read an excerpt from The Shameful Peace “Long live the shameful peace,” said writer and artist Jean Cocteau. It was World War II; France was now occupied by German forces, and the cultural elite were faced with how to survive. Frederic Spotts takes Cocteau’s offhand remark as his title in The

November 11, 2009
in History, Literature, Philosophy

Being and Time and Scandal

November 11, 2009
in History, Literature, Philosophy

In the wake of a heated commentary by Carlin Romano in The Chronicle Review, the academy has revived a familiar and unsettling debate over the merits of philosopher Martin Heidegger's work in light of the thinker's well-known connections to Nazism. The publication of Emmanuel Faye's book, Heidegger: The Introduction of