Intellectuals And Politics In Post War France
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Intellectuals And Politics In Post War France
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Author : D. Drake
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2001-11-11
Intellectuals And Politics In Post War France written by D. Drake and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-11 with Political Science categories.
What did French intellectuals have to say about Gaullism, the Cold War colonialism, the women's movement, and the events of May '68? David Drake examines the political commitment of intellectuals in France from Sartre and Camus to Bernard-Henri Lévy and Bourdieu. In this accessible study, he explores why there was a radical reassessment of the intellectual's role in the mid 1970s-80s and how a new generation engaged with Islam, racism, the Balkan Wars and the strikes of 1995.
Intellectuals And Politics In Post War France
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Author : David Drake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Intellectuals And Politics In Post War France written by David Drake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Politics and culture categories.
French Intellectuals And Politics From The Dreyfus Affair To The Occupation
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Author : D. Drake
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-04-05
French Intellectuals And Politics From The Dreyfus Affair To The Occupation written by D. Drake and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-05 with Political Science categories.
A companion volume to Drake's Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France (2002), French Intellectuals from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation traces the political positions adopted by French writers and artists from the end of the 19th century to the Liberation. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it offers a clear and accessible analysis of the intellectuals' engagement with nationalism, pacifism, communism, anti-communism, surrealism, fascism and anti-fascism, which is located within the evolving national and international context of the period.
After The Deluge
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Author : Julian Bourg
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2004
After The Deluge written by Julian Bourg and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, 'Apr_s nous, le deluge, ' serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories from French thinkers. But Julian Bourg's seamlessly edited volume proves that, historically speaking, French intellecutal and cultural life since World War Two has involved much more than a few infamous figures and concepts. Motivated by a desire to narrate and contextualize the deluge of 'French theory, ' After the Deluge showcases recent work by today's brightest scholars of French intellectual history that historicizes key debates, figures, and turning points in the postwar era of French thought. Relying on primary and archival sources, contributors examine, among other themes: left-wing critiques of the Left, the internationalizing of thought, the institutional and affective conditions of cultural life, and the religious imagination. They revive neglected debates and figures, and they explore the larger impact of political quarrels. In an afterword, preeminent French historian Fran_ois Dosse heralds the arrival of a new generation, a historiographical sensibility that brings fresh, original perspectives and a passion for French history to the contemporary French intellectual arena. After the Deluge adds significant depth and breadth to our understanding of postwar French intellectual and cultural history.
Arguing Revolution
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Author : Sunil Khilnani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Arguing Revolution written by Sunil Khilnani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Political Science categories.
He then addresses the period between 1968 and 1981, when the idea of revolution came under attack, and the impact of Francois Furet's revisionist historiography of the French Revolution, which decisively undermined the very idea of revolution in France.
Intellectuals In Politics
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Author : Jeremy Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Intellectuals In Politics written by Jeremy Jennings and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This wide-ranging investigation explores the influence of thinkers from diverse intellectual backgrounds on the development of twentieth century culture, and in so doing tells us much about the modern world in which we live.
Past Imperfect
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Author : Tony Judt
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011
Past Imperfect written by Tony Judt and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Swept up in the vortex of communism, French postwar intellectuals developed a blind spot to Stalinist tyranny. Albert Camus, who had been an authentic moral voice of the Resistance, pretended not to know about the crimes and terrors of the Soviet Union. Jean-Paul Sartre perverted logic to make an apologia for the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Simone de Beauvoir called for social change to be brought about in a single convulsion, or else not at all. Foolish French thinkers, suffering self-imposed moral anesthesia, defended the credibility of the show trials in Stalinized Eastern Europe. In a devastating study, Judt, a professor of European studies at New York University, argues that the belief system of postwar intellectuals, propped up by faith in communism, reflected fatal weaknesses in French culture such as the fragility of the liberal tradition and the penchant for grand theory. He also strips away the postwar myth that the small, fighting French Resistance was assisted by the mass of the nation.
French Intellectuals Against The Left
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Author : Michael Scott Christofferson
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2004
French Intellectuals Against The Left written by Michael Scott Christofferson and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.
Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism & revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. He offers an alternative interpretation for the denunciation of communism & Marxism by the French intellectual left in the late 1970s.
Between Empire And Europe
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Author : Lucia Bonfreschi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Between Empire And Europe written by Lucia Bonfreschi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with History categories.
Between the end of WWII and the end of the Cold War, the international roles of France and Great Britain changed dramatically. Major international powers were now states much bigger than European nations in terms of population, wealth, military capacity. Analyzing the international political discourse developed by French and British intellectuals and the wider public debate they prompted during the Cold War, this book addresses how the public sphere reacted and adapted to rapidly changing historical circumstances, and how intellectuals responded to a new and challenging relationship between national and foreign policy within a global context.
French Writers And The Politics Of Complicity
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Author : Richard J. Golsan
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-02
French Writers And The Politics Of Complicity written by Richard J. Golsan and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, and on those of three leading French intellectuals of the 1990s whose misplaced political idealism led them to support xenophobic, authoritarian regimes and dangerous historical revisionisms, Richard J. Golsan reexamines the notion of political commitment or engagement in two difficult periods in modern French history. Discussing the fiction, essays, and journalism of Henry de Montherlant, Jean Giono, and Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Golsan explores the complexity of artistic and intellectual collaboration during the German Occupation. He demonstrates that, in this context, complicity with political evil often derived from "nonpolitical" motives including sexual orientation, antimodern aesthetics, and dangerously skewed religious beliefs. Turning to the post–cold war era of the 1990s, Golsan examines the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut's support for Croatian independence, the "mediologist" Régis Debray's pro-Serb stance during the bombing of Kosovo, and the historian Stéphane Courtois's revisionist comparison of Nazi and Communist crimes during the 1997 debate surrounding the publication of The Black Book of Communism. In these three cases, laudable motives—and misguided historical comparisons with Vichy, Nazism, and the Occupation period that marked the political and intellectual discourses of France in the 1990s—resulted, paradoxically, in antidemocratic engagements profoundly at odds with the original motivations behind these intellectuals' commitments. In each of these case studies, political complicity derives from a combination of passions and ideals—whether positive or negative, emotional or intellectual—as well as a desire to make the present conform to a particular and generally skewed vision of the past. The full implications of these involvements are neither fully grasped nor understood by their authors, either through lack of objectivity, rationality, or imagination or through willful ignorance. The results are always unfortunate and often disastrous. Considered together, these six intellectuals serve as sobering reminders that political commitments are never as simple or straightforward as they seem and that admirable motives for political involvement can have dangerous and destructive consequences in historical practice.
