The obstructed path : French social thought in the years of desperation, 1930-1960 / H. Stuart Hughes ; with a new preface by Stanley Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart), 1916-1999.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

France.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 304 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

French social thought in the years of desperation, 1930-1960

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Obstructed Path 1

2. The Historians and the Social Order 19

I. From Michelet Via Durkheim to Henri Berr

II. From Strasbourg to Paris: the Collaboration of Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch

III. The war Years and Bloch's Three Testaments

IV. The Postwar and the Febvre Pontificate

3. The Catholics and the Human Condition 65

I. The Decade of Choice

II. Jacques Maritain in the Ideological Arena

III. The Spiritual Journey of Gabriel Marcel

IV. "Philosophers who were Catholics"

V. Toward the Council

4. The Quest for Heroism 102

I. Roger Martin Du Gard and the Unattainable Epic

II. Georges Bernanos and the Chivalric Ideal

III. Antoine De Saint-Exupery as Technician-Adventurer

IV. Andre Malraux as Artist-Adventurer

V. Charles De Gaulle and the Epic as History

5. The Marriage of Phenomenology and Marxism 153

I. The Intellectual Legacy of the Resistance

II. Jean-Paul Sartre: the Idealist Phase

III. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: From Meditation to Ideology and Back

IV. Jean-Paul Sartre: the Marxist Phase

6. The Way Out 227

I. Albert Camus: Sunlight and Exile

II. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Vision of the Future

III. Intermezzo: the New France Claude Levi-Strauss: Structure and Society

V. Conclusion: History, Anthropology, and Poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765808501

OCLC:

45951701