On November 5th, Manuel Valls, who served as Interior Minister, and then Prime Minister, under President François Hollande, denounced Ramadan's intellectual interlocutors as "complicit" in his alleged crimes.
I spent 15 years at the centre, working alongside people I regarded not merely as colleagues but as friends, political allies and intellectual interlocutors.
His work can be read as a series of dialogues with his illustrious predecessors – with Sainte-Beuve, with Proust, with Stendhal, with Baudelaire himself – his intellectual interlocutors, his near neighbours on the common continent of letters.
We live in an age of spin and TV channels such as CNN and Fox News hire good looking anchors rather than incisive, intellectual interlocutors.
This required a constant interlocutor or intellectual sparring partner.
He slyly started conversations with the sole purpose of picking apart the interlocutor's intellectual vanity.
"While there is no reason to assume that his departure will trigger a descent into a measure of chaos and instability, it is still bad news," Mr. Klau said, "because he is a competent interlocutor with real intellectual and moral authority in a small, informal steering group in the club of leaders".
He is a regular interlocutor of such mainstream intellectuals as Alain Finkielkraut, the conservative Jewish philosopher, who has called Camus "a great writer," and someone who has "forged an expression that is heard all the time and everywhere".
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the war on terror have hardened prejudice and suspicion on all sides; now more than ever it is necessary for Western intellectuals to find real interlocutors among Muslim thinkers and activists.
In this More, again adopting a fictional persona, wins over the youthful Messenger, his interlocutor, whose sincerity is never in doubt but whose anti-intellectual bias and self-reliance makes him representative of an evangelical readership.
