French Intellectuals Against the Left : : The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s / / Michael Scott Christofferson.

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 understa...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION French Antitotalitarianism in Comparative Perspective
  • 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