Benda, Julien - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Siepmann, Eric. "An Unorthodox Leftist." The Twentieth Century 160, No. 957 (November 1956): 452-56.
Posthumous personal and critical account of Benda.
Criticism
Gellner, Ernest. "La trahison de la trahison des clercs." In The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals, edited by Ian Maclean, Alan Montefiore, and Peter Winch, pp. 17-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Contends that "La trahison des clercs was itself a case of 'la trahison des clercs'" because of what Gellner considers the "pragmatic" nature of Benda's argument.
Howarth, Herbert. "Some Gifts of France." In his Notes on Some Figures behind T S. Eliot, pp. 150-98. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964.
Summarizes Benda's influence on the work of T. S. Eliot.
Hughes, H. Stuart. "The Decade of the 1920s." In his Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social...
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