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French Writers and the Politics of Complicity – Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s Crises of Democracy in the 1940s And 1990s




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 02/2006





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Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, and on those of three leading French intellectuals of the 1990s whose misplaced political idealism led them to support xenophobic, authoritarian regimes and dangerous historical revisionisms, Richard J. Golsan reexamines the notion of political commitment or engagement in two difficult periods in modern French history.

Discussing the fiction, essays, and journalism of Henry de Montherlant, Jean Giono, and Alphonse de Chteaubriant, Golsan explores the complexity of artistic and intellectual collaboration during the German Occupation. He demonstrates that, in this context, complicity with political evil often derived from "nonpolitical" motives including sexual orientation, antimodern aesthetics, and dangerously skewed religious beliefs.

Turning to the post--cold war era of the 1990s, Golsan examines the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut's support for Croatian independence, the "mediologist" Rgis Debray's pro-Serb stance during the bombing of Kosovo, and the historian Stphane Courtois's revisionist comparison of Nazi and Communist crimes during the 1997 debate surrounding the publication of The Black Book of Communism. In these three cases, laudable motives -- and misguided historical comparisons with Vichy, Nazism, and the Occupation period that marked the political and intellectual discourses of France in the 1990s -- resulted, paradoxically, in antidemocratic engagements profoundly at odds with the original motivations behind these intellectuals' commitments.

In each of these case studies, political complicity derives from a combination ofpassions and ideals -- whether positive or negative, emotional or intellectual -- as well as a desire to make the present conform to a particular and generally skewed vision of the past. The full implications of these involvements are neither fully grasped nor understood by th











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ISBN:

9780801882586

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 235 x 17.33 x 153 mm Ø 422 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Pagine Arabe: 240


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