Civilized people must get off their high horse and learn with humble… — Alain Finkielkraut · Skopia

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Civilized people must get off their high horse and learn with humble lucidity that they too are an indigenous variety.

Alain Finkielkraut

1988

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Ethnocentrism Anthropology

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Alain Finkielkraut

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Finkielkraut, Alain. La défaite de la pensée [The Undoing of Thought]. Gallimard, 1987.

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