French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s

by Richard J. Golsan

Book Overview

Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, and on those of three leading French intellectuals of the 1990s whose misplaced political idealism led them to support xenophobic, authoritarian regimes and dangerous historical revisionisms, Richard J. Golsan reexamines the notion of political commitment or engagement in two difficult periods in modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882583
• ISBN13: 9780801882586
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"