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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822383003321

Autore

Birchall Ian H.

Titolo

Sartre against Stalinism / / Ian H. Birchall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004

ISBN

1-57181-621-6

1-78238-973-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Berghahn monographs in French studies

Disciplina

335.43

Soggetti

Communism - France

Communism and philosophy - France

Communism - Soviet Union

Intellectuals - Political activity - France

France Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

SARTRE AGAINST STALINISM; CONTENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; PART I. The Making of a Rebel; Chapter 2. 'LA COMMUNISTE'; Chapter 3. THE THREAT OF FASCISM; Chapter 4. WAR WITHIN WAR; PART II. Postwar Choices; Chapter 5. THE BETTER CHOICE; Chapter 6. MATERIALISM OR REVOLUTION?; Chapter 7. THE SPECTRE OF TROTSKY; Chapter 8. THE RDR; Chapter 9. WHICH CAMP?; PART III. Rapproachement with Stalinism; Chapter 10. REORIENTATION; Chapter 11. DANGEROUS LIAISON; Chapter 12. DEBATE WITH THE FAR LEFT; Chapter 13. LAYING THE GHOST; PART IV. Towards a New Left

Chapter 14. FROM PRACTICE TO THEORYChapter 15. THE BATTLE OVER ALGERIA; Chapter 16. REBUILDING THE LEFT; Chapter 17. MAY TO DECEMBER; Chapter 18. CONCLUSION: SARTRE'S CENTURY?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard to the USSR and the French Communist



Party. But his relationship with the Marxist Left was much more complex and co tradictory than most accounts admit. This book offers a political defence of Sartre and shows how, from a relatively apolitical stance in the 1930s, Sartre became increasingly involved in the politics of the Left; though he always distrusted Stalinism, he was sometimes driven to ally himself with it because of the force of its argument.