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Past imperfect : French intellectuals, 1944-1956 /
Swept up in the vortex of communism, French postwar intellectuals developed a blind spot to Stalinist tyranny. Albert Camus, who had been an authentic moral voice of the Resistance, pretended not to know about the crimes and terrors of the Soviet Union. Jean-Paul Sartre perverted logic to make an ap...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Swept up in the vortex of communism, French postwar intellectuals developed a blind spot to Stalinist tyranny. Albert Camus, who had been an authentic moral voice of the Resistance, pretended not to know about the crimes and terrors of the Soviet Union. Jean-Paul Sartre perverted logic to make an apologia for the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Simone de Beauvoir called for social change to be brought about in a single convulsion, or else not at all. Foolish French thinkers, suffering ""self-imposed moral anesthesia, "" defended the credibility of the show trials in Stalinized Eastern Europe |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 348 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814743577 0814743579 9780814743928 0814743927 |