Devil's Whore

The book is based on World War II, with philosopher-writer Catherine Clément and aesthetics Professor Julien Castor as guests. It begins with the shooting of a documentary in the studios of the Arte television channel, which will mirror the intellectual movements that took place in France from then on. However, the issue is not limited to French intellectuals. It literally turns into the story of the world's intellectuals.

Communism, Structuralism, May 68, New Philosophers... Each phase of an "intellectual" epic spanning two generations. Behind the history of thought, in The Devil's Whore, there is a cruel universe dominated by Reason and the unknown aspects and different life stories of intellectuals.

Main heroes: Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault. , Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Michel Serres, Régis Debray, Bernard-Henri Lévy.

The Devil's Whore is also a novelesque history of thought and culture spanning more than half a century, with contributions that sometimes extend to mythology. a conversation novel. Writer Catherine Clément is also an eyewitness and actress of the period. While conveying some basic concepts such as love, desire, etc. to the reader from different perspectives, it also examines the Mind, as defined by Luther, "The Devil's Whore", that is, its symbol is the goddess of intelligence, the inventor goddess, the goddess who organizes daily life, Athena...

The Devil's Whore is a history of philosophy and a celebration of philosophers and intellectuals who left their mark on the 20th century, a history of philosophy that complements Sophie's World, a historical novel not only of the French "entellos" (intellectuals), as those who do not like intellectuals call it, but of all of us and the whole world since Yalta.< /p>