When Kant was too woke for French schools (1/0)
When I was writing that last post my plan wasn't necessarily to do a straightforward comparison between Barrès's hatred of Kant and modern moral panics about 'CRT', 'cultural marxism', etc . There are obviously clear similarities, but I didn't start this blog to wade directly into culture war issues. In addition I'm not sure how much I can say on the subject that hasn't already been said without a lot more background reading. I might do that background reading at some point, but it would be background reading for a article very different than the one I set out to write. Unfortunately, I don't speak French. Furthermore, there apparently isn't much of a market for English translations of late nineteenth century French ultranationalists, no matter how significant the secondary sources say those French ultranationalists actually are. This is the sort of thing I should have considered when starting out, but then again this is also my firs...
