Michael Scott Christofferson

French Intellectuals Against the Left (eBook, PDF)

The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782389743
• Artikelnr.: 44934464

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Fellow-Traveling to Revisionism: The Fate of the
Revolutionary Project, 1944-1974
Chapter 2. The Gulag as a Metaphor: The Politics of Reactions to
Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago
Chapter 3. Intellectuals and the Politics of the Union of the Left: The
Birth of Antitotalitarianism
Chapter 4. Dissidence Celebrated: Intellectuals and Repression in Eastern
Europe
Chapter 5. Antitotalitarianism Triumphant: The New Philosophers and Their
Interlocutors
Chapter 6. Antitotalitarianism Against the Revolutionary Tradition:
François Furet's Revisionist History of the French Revolution
Epilogue and Conclusion
Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index