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Author Wright, N. J. G., author

Title Socialism and the experience of time : idealism and the present in modern France / Julian Wright
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Contents Part I. Introduction -- Modern ideas of the present -- Socialism and socialist intellectuals in French history -- Part II. The present in the past: the Histoire socialiste and the socialist vision of time -- Socialists and their history -- Socialism and the flow of time in modernity -- Part III. Intellectual biography and the socialist experience of time -- Benoît Malon and André Léo: socialism and the harmonious present -- Georges Renard: socialist idealism and intellectual commitment -- Marcel Sembat and the daily life of socialism: between experience and enthusiasm -- Léon Blum: in the present, for the future -- Conclusion
Summary How do we make social democracy - by seizing the unknown possibilities of the future, or by focusing our attention on the immediate present? Julian Wright examines French reformist and idealist socialism's fascination with modern history, using interlocking biographical essays to understand the timeframe of their social transformation
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2017
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 20, 2017)
Subject Socialism -- France -- History
Socialism
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191841965
019184196X
9780192524676
0192524674