Civilized people must get off their high horse and learn with humble lucidity that they too are an indigenous variety.

Alain Finkielkraut

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Ethnocentrism Anthropology

Author

Alain Finkielkraut

Source

The Undoing of Thought

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Essay

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Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Philosopher Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Finkielkraut, Alain. La défaite de la pensée [The Undoing of Thought]. Gallimard, 1987.

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