Meaning of trahison des clercs | Babel Free

Definitions

A compromise of intellectual integrity by members of an intelligentsia.

Examples

“The age of the ‘experimental’ and the highbrow has helped to relegate poetry to a condition of irrelevance and triviality, and our collective self-commitment to cleverness and self-consciousness may ultimately (but by whom?) be seen as the profoundest of the twentieth century’s much-discussed trahisons des clercs.”

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