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7 unusual facts about Bertrand de Jouvenel


Association of Professional Futurists

The ten 'most important futures works' recognized by the APF in that year included Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View, Wendell Bell's Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era, Bertrand de Jouvenel's L'Art de la Conjecture (The Art of Conjecture), and Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

Other personalities to offer support were Professor Langevin, the Joliot-Curies, André Malraux, etc.

Here he became friends with Otto Abetz, the future German ambassador to Paris during the occupation.

Zeev Sternhell published a book, Ni Droite, ni gauche ("Neither Right nor Left"), accusing De Jouvenel of having had fascist sympathies in the 1930s and 40s.

Colette de Jouvenel

She was the half-sister of Renaud de Jouvenel and Bertrand de Jouvenel.

Wilson Carey McWilliams

There he studied under Sheldon Wolin, John Schaar and Norman Jacobson, and also recognized the influences of political theorists Leo Strauss and Bertrand de Jouvenel.

Zeev Sternhell

Sternhell was taken to court by Bertrand de Jouvenel, in 1983, after Sternhell published his work Ni Droite, ni gauche (Neither Right nor Left).



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