The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers During the Great War

Author/Contributor(s):	Hanna, Martha
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Date:	05/01/1996
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

When President Poincaré in the early days of World War I called on the French intellectual elite to contribute to the war effort with "their pens and their words," the union sacrée of scholars and writers--including Henri Bergson, Pierre Duhem, Ernest Lavisse, and Emile Durkheim--united French intellect against German Kultur.