It is right to rebel / Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi and Pierre Victor ; translated by Adrian van den Hoven and Basil Kingstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gavi, Philippe, author.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980, author.

Victor, P. (Pierre), 1945-2003, author.

Contributor:

Van den Hoven, Adrian, 1939- translator.

Kingstone, Basil, translator.

Standardized Title:

On a raison de se révolter. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Communism--France--History--20th century.

Communism.

France.

History.

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

France--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 334 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

The early 1970s was a crucial period in the political and intellectual climate of France. The newspaper Liberation was founded in the wake of the protest movements of 1968, and the country was gripped by industrial, political civil unrest on a huge scale. Behind all this were deep debates about the nature and justification of revolt, class conflict and consciousness, and the nature of what it meant to be free. It is Right to Rebel, available in English for the first time with a new Preface by Philippe Gavi, is a fascinating discussion between three thinkers about this extraordinary period. The book comprises extensive conversations between the philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre; journalist and co-founder of Libération Philippe Gavi; and political radical and Maoist Pierre Victor, all conducted between 1972 and 1974. In these conversations Sartre works out his relation between socialism and freedom, providing fascinating background to his tortured relationship with the French Communist Party. Together with his interlocutors they explore and debate what should be the basis of ethics, the nature of oppression and racism, immigration, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Chilean military coup in 1973, and more. A recurring theme is their exploration of two major questions: what should ethics be based on, and what makes a revolutionary? It is Right to Rebel is a fascinating insight into the philosophical and political background to Sartre's thought as well as the two lesser-known figures of Gavi and Victor, who play political foil to Sartre's measured philosophical stance. It is a fascinating, rich new resource for anyone studying Sartre, political theory, and French politics and political history. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Fellow-traveler of the Communist Party 12

2 Paranoia in institutions 23

3 1968: May, Prague, the break with the Communist Party 42

4 From Flaubert to the Maoists 52

5 Illegalism and Leftism 63

6 The Maoists and the intellectuals 72

7 Rally and marginality 82

8 The new values 95

9 Mohamed's reaction 108

10 "It is right to rebel" 116

11 What makes a petty bourgeois or worker rebel? 128

12 The militant sacrifice 143

13 "Equal pay for equal work" 162

14 Protest and repression 182

15 On power 198

16 The Chilean coup 212

17 Politics and sincerity 227

18 The Israeli-Arab War 240

19 Revolutionary man 244

20 "What would you have decided?" 260

21 Freedom regained 276.

Notes:

"It is right to rebel by Philippe Gavi, Jean-Paul Sartre and Pierre Victor, originally published as On a raison de se révolter, discussions © Editions Gallimard, 1974."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-317) and index.

ISBN:

9781138749764

1138749761

OCLC:

982654242