Ebook: Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France (French Politics, Society and Culture)

What did French intellectuals have to say about Gaullism, the Cold War, the women's movement, colonialism, and the events of May 1968? David Drake examines the political commitment of intellectuals in France from Sartre and Camus to Bernard-Henri L?vy and Pierre Bourdieu. In this accessible study, he explores why there was a radical reassessment of the intellectual's role in the mid-1970s to the 1980s and how a new generation engaged with Islam, racism, the Balkans War, and the strikes of 1995.