Past imperfect [electronic resource] : French intellectuals, 1944-1956 / Tony Judt.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 348 p. )Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814743577
- 0814743579
- Europe -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Europe -- Relations -- France
- France -- Relations -- Europe
- France -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century
- France -- Politics and government -- 1945-1958
- France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Communism -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence
- Intellectuals -- France -- History -- 20th century
- 305.5/52094409044 22
- DC33.7 .J842 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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