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We become witness to Luxemburg’s effort to respond to the impulses

Sara Maitland

and his philosophically provocative use of quotation marks

but also from the prison of free trade and militarism that has delivered successive crises

The Mediocracy keyword-samir-amin We become witness to Luxemburg’sGenerating great controversy on its publication in France, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter revolution in intellectual life has seen the period of the master thinkers of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. Where Althusser or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida once held centre stage, today restorationist currents prevail in academia and on television. Fuelled by a complaisant media, contemporary French ideology seeks neither