Past Imperfect – French Intellectuals, 1944–1956

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2011

"Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judtdoes more than simply describe the ideological acrobats of his subjects; he is a sharp, even a vindictive moralist who indicts these intellectuals for their inhumanity in failing to test their political thought against political reality." John Sturrock, New York Times Book Review

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814743560
ISBN-10: 0814743560
Pagini: 348
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

Recenzii

"...Past Imperfect is a well researched, passionately written hatchet job on the illusions and follies of a generation of post-war French Intellectuals. Judt begins by asking why communism dominated political and philosophical conversation in postwar France... Having put this period in context, Judt chronicles the emergence of a new generation of French postwar intellectuals and describes the central issues which preoccupied them: the legacy of four years of Resistance and collaboration, the Soviet occupation of central and east Europe and the show trials, often anti-Semitic, which came in their wake; Anti-Americanism and the Cold War; and the battles over French colonialism, especially in Algeria. He points out the key turning points: the Kravchenko and Rousset trials, brought by authors whose accounts of Soviet Communism met with disbelief and worse in Paris; the break between Stalin and Tito; the Rajk and Slansky show trials in east Europe; and finally in 1956, the suppression of the Hungarian uprising. Through it all, Judt traces certain disturbing patterns, especially the almost pathological flirtation of French intellectuals with violence and terror, from the French Revolution to Satres support for political terrorism and Maosim. MJewish Quarterly, March 2012

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A political analysis of the years between 1944-1956, reprinted to commemorate the work of Tony Judt

Papetărie, jocuri, reviste