![]() ![]() ![]() Concealed behind her figure is also a proto-feminist dimension defending the role of women in society. She is the emblem of a policy of resistance to an oppressive power, as shown by her steadfastness during her heresy trial. ![]() Bensaïd disputes her memory with the French right and the petrified memory of the French Republic, and he sees her as a figure inherent to a transitional period between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the modern world. Saint Joan, chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue by George Bernard Shaw, performed in 1923 and published in 1924. There has been a host of interpretations and re-appropriations of her. ![]() The Maid of Orléans, situated halfway between history and legend, was officially turned from heretic to saint and became a French national myth. Concerned with reconstructing strategic thinking for today's world, he sought inspiration in uncommon places for Marxist thinking, such as medieval religious heresies, Marranism, Messianism and figures like Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412-burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431-rehabilitated after a fashion in. The French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd (1946–2010) bequeathed an extensive political and philosophical oeuvre which mixes classical Marxist references with authors like walter Benja-min and Charles Péguy. ![]()
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