INTELLECTUALS & THE DIVISION OF LABOR--SARTRE ET AL

[Giles Peaker]

On 2-7-97 Ralph Dumain wrote:

>Though I have never seen any analysis
>of such a tendency in print, half-educated lout that I am, some time ago I
>discerned a two-stage process in the history of bourgeois thought.  The
>first stage is the triumphant, self-confident march of REASON, where
>rationality is identified with the existing or a rising order, and the
>intellectual has utmost confidence in himself as the arbiter of reason.  The
>second, decadent stage comes when the intellectual recognizes that brute
>force and not reason rules the world, and then he does an about-face,
>mortifying his intellect, and masochistically denigrating the very capacity
>that he has made his business to build up.

1848 as the key point? 

yours

Giles