Past imperfect French intellectuals, 1944-1956

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The force of circumstance? -- Decline and fall : the French intellectual community at the end of the Third Republic -- In the light of experience : the "lessons" of defeat and occupation -- Resistance and revenge : the semantics of commitment in the aftermath of liberation -- What is political justice? : philosophical anticipations of the Cold War -- pt. 2. The blood of others -- Show Thais : political terror in the East European mirror, 1947-1953 -- The blind force of history : the philosophical case for terror -- Today things are clear : doubts, dissent, and awakenings -- pt. 3. The treason of the intellectuals -- The sacrifices of the Russian people : a phenomenology of intellectual Russophilia -- About the East we can do nothing : of double standards and bad faith -- America has gone mad : anti-Americanism in historical perspective -- We must not disillusion the workers : on the self-abnegation and elective affinities of the intellectual -- pt. 4. The Middle Kingdom -- Liberalism, there is the enemy -- On some peculiarities of French political thought -- Gesta Dei per Francos : Theú Frenchness of French intellectuals -- Europe and the French intellectuals -- The responsibilities of power -- Conclusion: Goodbye to all that?