Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds. It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity.

-Julien Benda, La trahison des clercs, 1927

We must accept the fact that this kind of rebellion against modernity lies latent in Western society . . . its confused, fantastic program, its irrational and unpolitical rhetoric, embodies aspirations just as genuine . . . as the aspirations in other and more familiar movements of reform.

-Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair, 1961