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Intellectual Malaise, Culture, and Media Wars of France in the 1930s: The Writings of Emmanuel Mounier, Thierry Maulnier, and Robert Brasillach

Intellectual Malaise, Culture, and Media Wars of France in the 1930s: The Writings of Emmanuel Mounier, Thierry Maulnier, and Robert Brasillach

Campbell, Gabriel W.

Paperback

Literary CriticismFrench History

ISBN13: 9798233479908
Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
Published: Aug 12 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In the autumn of 1931, the economic tremors that had shattered Wall Street two years prior finally breached the fiscal ramparts of the French Third Republic. For nearly two decades, French political elites had comforted themselves with the illusion of a unique national immunity, persuaded that the nation's balanced equilibrium between industry and agriculture, alongside its stoic republican institutions, would shield it from the structural convulsions tearing through Anglo-Saxon capitalism and Central European democracies. When the collapse arrived, it did not merely dismantle financial markets; it struck a society already paralyzed by an insidious, pervasive sense of spiritual and cultural exhaustion. The interwar era in France was defined less by its material deprivation than by a profound crisis of faith in the foundational tenets of Enlightenment rationalism, bourgeois liberalism, and parliamentary democracy. A pervasive conviction took hold across the cultural spectrum that the republic was no longer merely misgoverned, but irrevocably corrupt, intellectually bankrupt, and structurally decadent. This delusion of inevitable decadence-the pervasive obsession with la décadence-became the organizing myth of a generation of intellectuals who came of age in the shadow of the Great War.

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