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Closing this work, Benda darkly predicts that the augmentation of the "realistic" impulse to domination of the material world, justified by intellectuals into an "integral realism," risked producing an all-encompassing species-wide civilization that would completely cease "to situate the good outside
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History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died."
408:(1947), an attack on the contemporary French celebrities of his time. Most of the titles in the bibliography below were published during the last three decades of Benda's long life; he is emphatically a 20th-century author.
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La France
Byzantine, ou, Le triomphe de la littérature pure : Mallarmé, Gide, Proust, Valéry, Alain Giraudoux, SuarÚs, les Surréalistes : essai d'une psychologie originelle du littérateur
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762:, Historical Reflections / RĂ©flexions Historiques Vol. 5, No. 2 (Winter/Hiver 1978), pp. 223â231, at p. 224. Published by: Berghahn Books
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779:Thomas, Hugh (2012).
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489:English translation,
206:Ăcole Centrale Paris
202:Lycée Louis-le-Grand
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478:Lettres Ă MĂ©lisande
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