Intellectuals And The French Communist Party
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Author | : Sudhir Hazareesingh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198278702 |
This work examines the emergence and subsequent demise of intellectual identification with the French Communist Party, arguing that after 1978, political conflicts between the Communist leadership and party intellectuals led to an erosion of support.
Author | : David Caute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Emily Stonington |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Judith Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Richard Wolin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400888441 |
How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960s Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Maoism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.
Author | : Tony Judt |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814743927 |
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.
Author | : David Caute |
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Total Pages | : 1394 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Robert M. Jenkins |
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Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Michael Scott Christofferson |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781571814272 |
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.
Author | : D. Drake |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2005-04-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230006094 |
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.