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The burden of responsibility

Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French twentieth century
Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Judt, Tony
Verfasser*innenangabe: Tony Judt
Jahr: 1998
Verlag: Chicago, University of Chicago Press
Mediengruppe: Buch
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VERLAGSTEXT: / / Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might seem an unlikely combination. Blum was a fin-de-siecle aesthete who became the spiritual and political leader of the French non-Communist Left in the first half of this century. Camus, best known to millions of readers worldwide for his novels The Stranger and The Plague, was a wartime Resistance figure who played a prominent part in post-1945 intellectual life in France before dying tragically young in a car crash in 1960. Aron, a contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre in the brilliant intellectual generation of interwar France, was a political theorist, journalist, and critic of Communism who made a major contribution to the recent revival of liberal thought in contemporary France. In The Burden of Responsibility Tony Judt offers a distinctive and original reinterpretation of the writings and public role of these three men, arguing that they have much in common. Despite the great differences in their backgrounds, their interests, and their views, all three were men of integrity who took seriously their responsibility as public intellectuals.
Using the lives of three French intellectuals of the 20th century, this text looks at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity unfettered by the difficult exigencies of their time. The text examines issues such as: antisemitism and the dilemma of Jewish identity; political and moral idealism in public life; the Marxist movement in French thought; the traumas of decolonization; the disaffection of the intelligentsia; and the insidious quarrels rending Right and Left. Particular emphasis is put on Leon Blum's leadership of the Popular Front and his defiance of the Vichy governments, on Albert Camus's part in the Resistance and Algerian War, and on Raymond Aron's cultural commentary and opposition to the facile acceptance by many French intellectuals of communism's utopian promise.
 

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Judt, Tony
Verfasser*innenangabe: Tony Judt
Jahr: 1998
Verlag: Chicago, University of Chicago Press
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ISBN: 978-0-226-41419-5
2. ISBN: 0-226-41419-1
Beschreibung: 196 Seiten : Illustrationen
Schlagwörter: Frankreich, Geschichte 20. Jhdt., France, La France, République Francaise
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Sprache: Englisch
Mediengruppe: Buch