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...opponents claim. "Sarkozy cites Jean Jaurès here to better apply National Front [a far-right French party] ideas there, and his choice of Camus for the Panthéon is also clearly rooted in a purely political logic rather than an intellectual one," says François Cusset, a historian and philosophy expert who teaches American studies at the University of Paris-Nanterre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy? | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...However, despite Camus' early years as a communist and long dedication to fighting imperialism, his later rejection of totalitarianism of all kinds - and denunciation of Soviet oppression that ran him afoul of contemporaries like Jean-Paul Sartre - don't exactly make him a perfect icon of the left, says Cusset. "Though he was courageous in refusing to be shut away into any political or philosophical category, Camus never really said what camp he belonged to, meaning his legacy is open to lots of interpretation," Cusset says. "Camus was indeed one of the most famous figures and beloved writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy? | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...failed to do the mental work of constructing and defending philosophical systems the way earlier titans like Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre did. "Previous generations of French intellectuals justified their entire careers on their conceptual work," says philosopher François Cusset, author of French Theory. "Before, the ideas came first and the thinker second; now it's reversed. BHL and the others are moralists who take up crusades on various issues, and rely on the media to advertise them - and themselves." The fury over BHL raises a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Philosophy Dead? | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...seems not to have been distinguished for hard study. The following conversation is recorded: Crossing the College Yard one afternoon to breakfast at the "Holly Tree" (then a mere log cabin), after he had been at Cambridge for about a month, he was confronted by the then Registrar, Cusset Jeremy Whitcombe by name, who said, "Brown, I shall be obliged to send you a Private and Public at once, next a Special, and the week after a Suspension, - so I 'd advise you to make the most of your time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN AT HARVARD. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

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