Past imperfect
Subtitle: French intellectuals, 1944-1956
By: Tony Judt
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780814743560; 9780814743577
Subjects: Politics and government; Communism; Intellectual life; Influence; Relations; World War, 1939-1945; Intellectuals; Moral conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The force of circumstance?; title: Decline and fall : the French intellectual community at the end of the Third Republic; title: In the light of experience : the "lessons" of defeat and occupation; title: Resistance and revenge : the semantics of commitment in the aftermath of liberation; title: What is political justice? : philosophical anticipations of the Cold War; title: pt. 2. The blood of others; title: Show Thais : political terror in the East European mirror, 1947-1953; title: The blind force of history : the philosophical case for terror; title: Today things are clear : doubts, dissent, and awakenings; title: pt. 3. The treason of the intellectuals; title: The sacrifices of the Russian people : a phenomenology of intellectual Russophilia; title: About the East we can do nothing : of double standards and bad faith; title: America has gone mad : anti-Americanism in historical perspective; title: We must not disillusion the workers : on the self-abnegation and elective affinities of the intellectual; title: pt. 4. The Middle Kingdom; title: Liberalism, there is the enemy; title: On some peculiarities of French political thought; title: Gesta Dei per Francos : Theú Frenchness of French intellectuals; title: Europe and the French intellectuals; title: The responsibilities of power; title: Conclusion: Goodbye to all that?