Chapter 3: Entretiens sur le bon usage de la liberté

J. S. T. Garfitt

From The Work and Thought of Jean Grenier (1898-1971) (1983), pp. 31-50, doi:10.59860/td.c6b092f

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Part of the book: The Work and Thought of Jean Grenier (1898-1971)

J. S. T. Garfitt

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Abstract.  The intellectual cast of the argument in Le Choir is such as to suppress the intermediate zone of human values. It was to correct the balance after this uncompromising treatment of the subject of choice that Grenier undertook a more popular but no less significant work, which he called 'Conversations' (Entretiens sur le bon usage de la liberté) and in which the emphasis is strongly on possibility.

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