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Originally Posted by Botnst
Yet British anti-intellectualism is as superficial as French intellectual posturing. In his excellent new book Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini, Professor of intellectual history at Cambridge, attacks Britain’s mythical self-image as a practical, no-nonsense nation that doesn’t hold with Frenchified philosophising.
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Quoyt fond of the Brits, Oy am. Not least of the reasons for my gratitude is this splendid language I'm beating up on.
Still, I'm always a bit tickled when I hear of Amer/Anglo disparaging of French arrogance. The French give nothing away to the insufferable arrogance of a British Lord of an imperialist.