MARC Bibliographic Record

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100 1_ $aSchalk, David L., $eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Spectrum of Political Engagement :$bMounier, Benda, Nizan, Brasillach, Sartre /$cDavid L. Schalk.
250    $a1st ed.
264 _1 $aPrinceton, NJ : $bPrinceton University Press, $c[2015]
264 _4 $c©2015
300    $a1 online resource (201 pages).
336    $atext$btxt
337    $acomputer$bc
338    $aonline resource$bcr
490 0_ $aPrinceton Legacy Library ;$v1618
546    $aEnglish
500    $aIncludes index.
504    $aBibliography: p. [161]-175.
588 0_ $aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
520    $aWhy do artists, poets, philosophers, writers, and others who are usually classified as intellectuals leave the ivory tower to "dirty their hands" in the political arena? In an effort to illuminate the intellectual's struggle to come to grips with the issues raised by political involvement, David Schalk examines the life and thought of five intellectuels engagés in France during the period between 1920 and 1945. From communist to fascist, these figures-Paul Nizan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Mounier, Julien Benda, and Robert Brasillach-cover the full political spectrum, and Professor Schalk studies their diverse reactions to the social, political, and economic tensions of the interwar period. Broadly defining "engagement" as political involvement that is voluntary, conscious, and freely chosen, usually by intellectuals, the author poses the intellectual's dilemma in the following terms: "When we are engagé," he writes, "we fear that we are debasing our highest values; when we are not, we worry that we have become, in Paul Nizan's trenchant phrase, mere chiens de garde [watchdogs]." He then investigates the origins and the popularization of the concept of engagement in the early 1930s, the arguments used to denounce it and to defend it, its different manifestations, and finally its effects on the socio-political actuality of the world.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
505 00 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tI. What Was Engagement? -- $tII. The Case against Engagement: Julien Benda and La Trahison des Clercs -- $tIII. The Marxist Rebuttal: Paul Nizan and the Professors -- $tIV. Fascist Engagement -- $tV. Conclusions: Why Engagement? -- $tEpilogue: A Note on Jean-Paul Sartre -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex
530    $aIssued also in print.
650 _0 $aPhilosophy, French$y20th century.
650 _0 $aAuthors, French$y20th century$xPolitical and social views.
650 _0 $aPolitics and literature$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century.
650 _0 $aFrench prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
651 _0 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 _0 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
655 _4 $aElectronic books.
776    $z0-691-60381-2
776    $z0-691-05275-1
830 _0 $aPrinceton legacy library.
906    $aBOOK

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Network Electronic IDs: 9912338610502121
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