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Past imperfect : French intellectuals, 1944-1956 / Tony Judt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Judt, Tony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--France--History--20th century.
- Intellectuals.
- World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Communism--History--20th century.
- Communism.
- France--Intellectual life--20th century.
- France.
- France--Politics and government--1945-1958.
- France--Moral conditions--History--20th century.
- France--Relations--Europe.
- Europe--Relations--France.
- Europe.
- Europe--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Europe--Politics and government--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- “Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judt…does more than simply describe the ideological acrobats of his subjects; he is a sharp, even a vindictive moralist who indicts these intellectuals for their inhumanity in failing to test their political thought against political reality.”-John Sturrock, New York Times Book Review
- 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 : Theu Frenchness of French intellectuals
- Europe and the French intellectuals
- The responsibilities of power
- Conclusion: Goodbye to all that?.
- pt. 4. The middle kingdom.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-4392-7
- OCLC:
- 744354077
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