
In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique of totalitarianism as an abrupt rupture induced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gul...
Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies (Book 2)
Hardcover: 306 pages
Publisher: Berghahn Books; 1 edition (June 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1571814280
ISBN-13: 978-1571814289
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 221221
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Once upon a time there was a country, France, plagued by pro-Communist intellectuals. Not only did these intellectuals hate freedom and have unchallenged intellectual hegemony but they also infected the United States, Britain and the rest of the fre...
ago, Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism and revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. The author's focus on the direct-democratic politics of French intellectuals offers an important alternative to recent histories that seek to explain the course of French intellectual politics by France's apparent lack of a liberal tradition.