Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914-1960
Author: David Caute
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 606
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Author: David Caute
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 606
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Total Pages: 412
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Wolin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0691178232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960s Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Maoism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.
Author: David Caute
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 1394
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Publisher: Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Field
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521082781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe impact of the First World War on European society and the rise of Communism and Fascism are important subjects that concern all students of recent history. The object of this book is to study these themes through the careers of three French writers: Henri Barbusse, Drieu la Rochelle and Georges Bernanos. Each of these writers served in the war and was subsequently attracted towards Communism or Fascism. Barbusse first achieved fame through his anti-war novel Le Feu, but in the years after 1918 he made a new career for himself as a rallying point for Communist sympathizers amongst the French intellectuals. After becoming one of the most intelligent and sophisticated advocates of Fascism in the 1930s, Drieu la Rochelle opted for a policy of collaboration with the Germans in 1940 and committed suicide in 1945. Bernanos moved to a position very close to Fascism in the 1930s, but his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, experiences that he so memorably described in Les grands cimeliires sous la lune, made him devote the remaining years of his life to an attack on all forms of totalitarianism.
Author: David Caute
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Published: 1954
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sudhir Hazareesingh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780198278702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the emergence and subsequent demise of intellectual identification with the French Communist Party, arguing that after 1978, political conflicts between the Communist leadership and party intellectuals led to an erosion of support.