Trial and Defence of a Model Democratic Librarian: The Example of Eugène Morel

The «Babel complex» haunts the library. It would be submitted to a theological, ontological and political trial that would neutralise its emergence into the political sphere. What is the use of defending this malignant den? Yet, despite the biblical mould of the order and its authority, doesn't the pluralist, public and universal library furnish a model of a democratic institution? Isn't the librarian's monument, by his methods as by his ends, the condition of the effective possibility of a citizen's judgement? Eugène Morel, militant librarian, would make himself the virulent apologist. Can we now hear his plea!
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