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- Furor on the Left Bank: Philosophical
Phonies?
- By Jon Henley, The Guardian (London), 1
October 1997. Review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont,
Les Impostures Intellectuelles, a critique of
French intellectuals.
- Scientologists Fight French Religious
Intolerance
- Panafrican News Agency, 23 October 2000. Scientologists,
including a number of South Africans, reacted angrily to the
French Government's perceived religious
intolerance. France has blacklisted 173 religions and is
seeking to pass a bill that will look to dissolve sects that
are considered undesirable. The list includes Baptists,
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists and
Seventh-Day Adventists.
- The Black Soul of Jean-Paul Sartre
- By Pravasan Pillay, 6
August 2001. Many influential Black thinkers celebrate
Sartre as the only white Western philosopher who spoke
directly to the Third World. Black and radical philosophers
increasingly see him as the first white philosopher to take
a serious stand against colonialism and racism.