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100	1		_aBenda, Julien, _d1867-1956
240	1	0	_aTrahison des clercs. English
245	1	4	_aThe great betrayal (La trahison des clercs)
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-16
508			_aSean – @parchmentglow
520			_a"The great betrayal (La trahison des clercs)" by Julien Benda is a political-philosophical essay written in the early 20th century. It argues that modern intellectuals—“clerks” in the medieval sense—have betrayed their universal, disinterested calling by championing nationalist, class, and racial passions, converting political “realism” and the State into quasi-religions. The work indicts writers, scholars, and churchmen for dignifying partisan hatreds instead of serving transcendental truth and justice. The opening of this treatise sets its terms and case. A translator’s note clarifies that “clerks” means those who speak transcendently and that “real” opposes “ideal.” In a foreword, an Army Orders versus Gospels anecdote frames the thesis: today’s spiritual leaders urge obedience to material power. The first chapter surveys how political passions (race, class, nation) have been perfected—now universal, organized, continuous, homogeneous, and ideologically armed—amplified by the press, fused with other movements (anti‑Semitism, class authority), and transformed into proud, mystical nationalisms that wage “wars of culture.” The second chapter roots these passions in two drives—interest and pride—with nationalism strongest because it unites both, defining them as “divinized realism” that has become humanity’s prevailing faith. The third chapter begins the accusation of betrayal: historically, “clerks” checked lay egotisms; now many adopt and propagate them, especially nationalism and xenophobia, and import them into poetry, fiction, history-writing, criticism, and even metaphysics, while new doctrines exalt particularism and scorn universal humanism—sometimes even seeking religious sanction for national and class egotism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1928
653			_aNationalism
653			_aPhilosophy, Modern
653			_aIntellectuals
700	1		_aAldington, Richard, _d1892-1962
856	4		_uhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/_/tJ3ZAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78218
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