Sartre against Stalinism
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Sartre against Stalinism
(Berghahn monographs in French studies)
Berghahn Books, 2004
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 co tradictory 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical Note
Abbreviations
Chronology
Chapter 1. Introduction: Claiming the Corpse
PART I: THE MAKING OF A REBEL
Chapter 2. 'La Communiste'
Chapter 3. The Threat of Fascism
Chapter 4. War within War
PART II: POSTWAR CHOICES
Chapter 5. The Better Choice
Chapter 6. Materialism or Revolution?
Chapter 7. The Spectre of Trotsky
Chapter 8. The RDR
Chapter 9. Which Camp?
PART III: RAPPROCHMENT WITH STALINISM
Chapter 10. Reorientation
Chapter 11. Dangerous Liaison
Chapter 12. Debate with the Far Left
Chapter 13. Laying the Ghost
PART IV: TOWARDS A NEW LEFT
Chapter 14. From Practice to Theory
Chapter 15. The Battle over Algeria
Chapter 16. Rebuilding the Left
Chapter 17. May to December
Chapter 18. Conclusion: Sartre's Century?
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Index
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