03412nam 2200637 450 991082238300332120230207220435.01-57181-621-61-78238-973-310.1515/9781782389736(CKB)3710000000641280(EBL)4462005(SSID)ssj0001661647(PQKBManifestationID)16440782(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001661647(PQKBWorkID)14985333(PQKB)10933272(MiAaPQ)EBC4462005(DE-B1597)637506(DE-B1597)9781782389736(EXLCZ)99371000000064128020031030d2004 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSartre against Stalinism /Ian H. BirchallNew York :Berghahn Books,2004.1 online resource (256 p.)Berghahn monographs in French studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-57181-542-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 LeftChapter 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; INDEXMost 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.Berghahn monographs in French studies.CommunismFranceCommunism and philosophyFranceCommunismSoviet UnionIntellectualsPolitical activityFranceFranceIntellectual life20th centuryCommunismCommunism and philosophyCommunismIntellectualsPolitical activity335.43Birchall Ian H.129217MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822383003321Sartre against Stalinism4034141UNINA