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What is Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France about?
What did French intellectuals have to say about Gaullism, the Cold War colonialism, the women's movement, and the events of May '68? David Drake examines the political commitment of intellectuals in France from Sartre and Camus to Bernard-Henri Lévy and Bourdieu. In this accessible study, he explores why there was a radical reassessment of the intellectual's role in the mid 1970s-80s and how a new generation engaged with Islam, racism, the Balkan Wars and the strikes of 1995.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Drake (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349417681
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Science, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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