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Eric Fassin examines the trend of State anti-intellectualism in France using the nation as a case study to demonstrate that this tendency is not limited to ostensibly illiberal regimes. He argues that today's world requires an examination of this phenomenon beyond Cold War geopolitical divisions and highlights a global shift towards authoritarian neoliberalism. His book is a plea for the political urgency of intellectual work in a global moment of political anti-intellectualism.
The book covers the period from President Sarkozy to Prime Minister Valls and includes both firsthand and public cases of attacks against academics, not only in France, but also in Brazil, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, and the United States, with examples of State racism and the argument of the State against antiracism. The book also considers issues of censorship and cancel culture, concluding with Fassin's firsthand account of attacks on him from the far-right.
Contents
Introduction: Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Truth, Anti-intellectualism: A sociological fallacy, Illiberal neoliberalism, From "the theory of gender" to critical race theory, The politics of bullshit, Chapter 1: Anti-Academic Politics, Introduction 1: Against "gender theory", Teaching Gender: Against Censorship (2011), Taking the Side of Science (2011), Introduction 2: International solidarity, Academics for Peace in Turkey: From Support to Solidarity (2016), Censoring a Symposium on LGBT Asylum at the University of Verona (2018), Brazil: Social Sciences and Humanities Are No Luxury (2019), Chapter 2: Censorship & Cancel Culture, Introduction 1: The politics of censorship, The Right to Political Blasphemy (2016), How a Symposium on Intersectionality Was Nearly Censored (2017), Misleading attacks on Twitter, The temptation of censorship, Introduction 2: The polemic against "cancel culture", Political Correctness and the Media (2019), "Cancel Culture": Importing a Polemic (2021), A transatlantic controversy, Is the New York Times "illiberal"? When the "cancelled ones" are still around, Media rumor, A political offensive, Cancel Culture in the Media (2021), Freedom of opinion vs. academic freedom, The laboratory of the Far Right, The assassins of memory, The memory of assassins, The illusion of debate, Asking the questions, imposing the answers, Refusing to debate, Chapter 3: The Return of Race, Introduction 1: Racism and the state, Manuel Valls and the Roma: An Invisible Trial (2015), Introduction 2: The racial question, The Race Word (2019), Sex vs. race, Truth or power, Scientific racism vs. critical knowledge of race, Race vs. races, The word vs. the deed, Minority hegemony or intellectual panic, Spokespersons or academics, Racism and the state, The End of the Racial Exception in France (2020), Chapter 4: Anti-Racism & the State, Introduction 1: From racism to anti-racism, and back, A New "Republican Front" Against Anti-Racism (2017), Anti-Racism: A New Lexicon (2017), The three ages of anti-racism, Non-Whites & whiteness, Political anti-racism and anti-Semitism, Policies of racialization and the politics of race, State racism, Introduction 2: The politics of definition, The Culprits Are the Victims (2021), Systemic racism, A political offensive, From the "new anti-Semitism" to "anti-White racism", "Native informant", Reversing the meaning of racism, The Regime of Fear (2020), Conclusion: Democracy and the Intersectional Politics of Mourning, Antigone, the Daughters and Sons of the Republic (2023), Sisters, Mothers, Children of the Republic Who splits the Republic? Epilogue: In the First Person: Name and Address: Anonymous Letters (2014), Who Is Complicit with Whom? Academic Freedom at Risk (2020), Notes, About the author, Index.
