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1 online resource (x, 294 pages) |
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Berghahn monographs in French studies |
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Berghahn monographs in French studies.
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Ch. 1. From Fellow-Traveling to Revisionism: The Fate of the Revolutionary Project, 1944-1974 -- Ch. 2. The Gulag as a Metaphor: The Politics of Reactions to Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago -- Ch. 3. Intellectuals and the Politics of the Union of the Left: The Birth of Antitotalitarianism -- Ch. 4. Dissidence Celebrated: Intellectuals and Repression in Eastern Europe -- Ch. 5. Antitotalitarianism Triumphant: The New Philosophers and Their Interlocutors -- Ch. 6. Antitotalitarianism Against the Revolutionary Tradition: Francois Furet's Revisionist History of the French Revolution |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index |
| Notes |
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In English |
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Liberalism -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Intellectuals -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Intellectual life
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Intellectuals -- Political activity
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Liberalism
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Intellektueller
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Totalitarismus
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Die Linke
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Intellectuelen.
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Communisme.
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France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
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France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003043795 |
| ISBN |
9781782389743 |
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1782389741 |
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