Jacques Henric's Column: Intellectual Rebellion Resurfaces

Jacques Henric's column in Artpress reports a resurgence of intellectual rebellion from aging French thinkers. Jacques-Alain Miller, Lacan's son-in-law and former political agitator, emerges from decades of silence to publish polemical letters defending Lacan's revolutionary thought, sparked by a denied right of reply from a journal. An anonymous tract titled "Vive le matérialisme!" (published by Verdier) calls for a militant materialism against spiritualism, likely authored by a figure from the Althusser-Lacan-Mao generation. Daniel Accursi's "La pensée molle" (Gallimard) attacks contemporary moralism and 'soft thinking,' invoking Nietzsche, Artaud, and Jarry, though Henric criticizes its lapse into romanticism. Henric also recommends Jean Allouch's "Le sexe du maître" and Pierre Klossowski's "Écrits d'un monomane" (Le Promeneur, Gallimard) as combat writings. The column highlights a broader trend of former 1960s radicals re-engaging in intellectual combat against prevailing spiritualism and moralism.