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Julien Benda
Julien Benda (26 December 1867 – 7 June 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist. He remains famous for his short book, "La Trahison des Clercs" ("The Treason of the Intellectuals" or "The Betrayal of the Intellectuals"). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times and one time for the Goncourt Prize.
Life.
Born into a Jewish family in Paris, Benda became a master of French "belles-lettres". Yet he believed that
interest rates away from Congress, and the teaching of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud in American universities ("beaneries") are examples of what Julien Benda termed "La trahison des clercs", contains antisemitic language. Towards the close of the canto, the reader is returned to the world of Odysseus; a line from Book Five of the "Odyssey" tells of the winds breaking up the hero's boat and is followed shortly by Leucothea, "Kadamon thugater" or Cadmon's daughter) offering him her veil to carry