French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s Contributor(s): Christofferson, Michael Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571814280 ISBN-13: 9781571814289 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2004 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - History | Europe - France - History | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 320.530 |
LCCN: 2003043795 |
Series: Monographs in French Studies |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 306 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique of totalitarianism as an abrupt rupture induced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism and revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. The author's focus on the direct-democratic politics of French intellectuals offers an important alternative to recent histories that seek to explain the course of French intellectual politics by France's apparent lack of a liberal tradition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Christofferson, Michael Scott: - Michael Scott Christofferson was educated at Carleton College and Columbia University. He currently is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University, Erie and lives in the Cleveland, Ohio. |