ISBN:
0814743560
,
9780814743560
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 348 S.
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2011
DDC:
305.5/52094409044
Keywords:
Communism History 20th century
;
Intellectuals History 20th century
;
World War, 1939-1945 Influence
;
Interlektuell
;
Frankreich
;
Politik
;
Moral
;
Geschichte
;
France Intellectual life 20th century
;
France Politics and government 1945-1958
;
France Moral conditions 20th century
;
History
;
France Relations
;
Europe Relations
;
Europe Intellectual life 20th century
;
Europe Politics and government 1945-
;
Frankreich
;
Intellektueller
;
Geistesleben
;
Kommunismus
;
Geschichte 1944-1956
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1. The force of circumstance? -- Decline and fall : the French intellectual community at the end of the Third Republic -- In the light of experience : the "lessons" of defeat and occupation -- Resistance and revenge : the semantics of commitment in the aftermath of liberation -- What is political justice? : philosophical anticipations of the Cold War -- pt. 2. The blood of others -- Show Thais : political terror in the East European mirror, 1947-1953 -- The blind force of history : the philosophical case for terror -- Today things are clear : doubts, dissent, and awakenings -- pt. 3. The treason of the intellectuals -- The sacrifices of the Russian people : a phenomenology of intellectual Russophilia -- About the East we can do nothing : of double standards and bad faith -- America has gone mad : anti-Americanism in historical perspective -- We must not disillusion the workers : on the self-abnegation and elective affinities of the intellectual -- pt. 4. The Middle Kingdom -- Liberalism, there is the enemy -- On some peculiarities of French political thought -- Gesta Dei per Francos : Theú Frenchness of French intellectuals -- Europe and the French intellectuals -- The responsibilities of power -- Conclusion: Goodbye to all that?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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