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The Burden of Responsibility : Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century (Paperback, New edition)
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The Burden of Responsibility : Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century (Paperback, New edition)
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Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of
the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique
look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and
demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral
responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of
their time. Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert
Camus, and Raymond Aron, Judt examines pivotal issues in the
history of contemporary French society--antisemitism and the
dilemma of Jewish identity, political and moral idealism in public
life, the Marxist moment in French thought, the traumas of
decolonization, the disaffection of the intelligentsia, and the
insidious quarrels rending Right and Left. Judt focuses
particularly on Blum's leadership of the Popular Front and his
stern defiance of the Vichy governments, on Camus's part in the
Resistance and Algerian War, and on Aron's cultural commentary and
opposition to the facile acceptance by many French intellectuals of
communism's utopian promise. Severely maligned by powerful critics
and rivals, each of these exemplary figures stood fast in their
principles and eventually won some measure of personal and public
redemption. Judt constructs a compelling portrait of modern French
intellectual life and politics. He challenges the conventional
account of the role of intellectuals precisely because they
mattered in France, because they could shape public opinion and
influence policy. In Blum, Camus, and Aron, Judt finds three very
different men who did not simply play the role, but evinced a
courage and a responsibility in public life that far outshone their
contemporaries. An eloquent and instructive study of intellectual
courage in the face of what the author persuasively describes as
intellectual irresponsibility.--Richard Bernstein, New York Times
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