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The Burden of Responsibility
副标题: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780226414188
出版社: University of Chicago Press
出版年: 1998-12-1
页数: 204
定价: USD 17.50
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
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.
作者简介
托尼?朱特（Tony Judt），纽约大学埃里希?马利亚?雷马克欧洲研究教授和雷马克研究所主任。另著有《战后欧洲史》（Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945）、《未完成的昔日：1944-1956年的法国知识分子》（Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956）等。
译者简介：
章乐天，笔名云也退，不自由撰稿人，从事媒体、书评、艺评工作。译有《加缪和萨特——一段传奇友谊及其崩解》（华东师范大学出版社，2005）。
