Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

COVER
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: THE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE?
	1. Decline and Fall: The French Intellectual Community at the End of the Third Republic
	2. In the Light of Experience: The "Lessons" of Defeat and Occupation
	3. Resistance and Revenge: The Semantics of Commitment in the Aftermath of Liberation
	4. What Is Political Justice?: Philosophical Anticipations of the Cold War
PART TWO: THE BLOOD OF OTHERS
	5. Show Trials: Political Terror in the East European Mirror, 1947–1953
	6. The Blind Force of History: The Philosophical Case for Terror
	7. Today Things Are Clear: Doubts, Dissent, and Awakenings
PART THREE: THE TREASON OF THE INTELLECTUALS
	8. The Sacrifices of the Russian People: A Phenomenology of Intellectual Russophilia
	9. About the East We Can Do Nothing: Of Double Standards and Bad Faith
	10. America Has Gone Mad: Anti-Americanism in Historical Perspective
	11. We Must Not Disillusion the Workers: On the Self-Abnegation and Elective Affinities of the Intellectual
PART FOUR: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
	12. Liberalism, There Is the Enemy: On Some Peculiarities of French Political Thought
	13. Gesto Dei per Francos: The Frenchness of French Intellectuals
	14. Europe and the French Intellectuals: The Responsibilities of Power
CONCLUSION: GOODBYE TO ALL THAT?
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
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