Sartre Against Stalinism (3) (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies, 3) - Hardcover

Birchall, Ian H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1571816216 ISBN 13: 9781571816214

Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC, 2004

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Book by Birchall Ian H

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"...an outstanding contribution to Sartre studies. There is nothing quite like it, and Birchall's scholarship is formidable ... The author has an impressive mastery of his topic, the deep intellectual and political background needed for this study, and has gone into the many sources needed to answer his questions." Ron Aronson, Wayne State University

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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 contradictory 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.

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• Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1571816216
• ISBN 13: 9781571816214
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258