French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s

by Michael Scott Christofferson

Book Overview

In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique of totalitarianism as an abrupt rupture induced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Christofferson argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571814272
• ISBN13: 9781571814272
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"