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French Intellectuals at a Crossroads, 1918-1939

French Intellectuals at a Crossroads, 1918-1939

Hardcover

General SociologySocial MovementsWorld War I

ISBN10: 1680536869
ISBN13: 9781680536867
Publisher: Academica Pr
Published: Jan 28 2023
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

French Intellectuals at a Crossroads examines a broad array of interrelated subjects: the effect of World War I on France's intellectual community, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of international communism, calls for pacifism, the creation of an Intellectuals' International of the Mind, the debate over the myth of the disengaged intellectual, the apolitical group of intellectuels non-conformistes, and, finally, the challenges of surrealism. Together, these developments reflected the diversity of intellectual commitment in France in the uncertain and troubled 1920s and 1930s. The interwar period also witnessed France's relative decline, as expressed in a move from a mood of immense relief coupled with a feeling of debilitating fatigue to an inward-looking, pessimistic, and defeatist outlook that presaged World War II and national collapse.

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