-Release date: 15 April 1968. After teaching literature in Algeria, Mexico City and Florence, Jean-François Revel began a journalistic and literary career in Paris in 1957. Born in 1924 in Marseille (France), this intellectual is best known for his polemical books such as 'Pourquoi des philosophes?' (1957) and 'La Cabale des dévots' (1962). In 1968, Jean-François Revel gave Fernand Seguin an overview of his ideas on the French intellectual world. During the interview, he talks about the notion of pamphlet, French politics and mass culture.