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Chicago. 1998. University of Chicago Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good

Chicago. 1998. University of Chicago Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0226414183. 196 pages. hardcover. Credit for cover photographs of Albert Camus and Leon Blum: Archive Photos. Author photo courtesy of Rudolf Semotan, Der Standard. keywords: History France Philosophy Politics Postwar. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might seem an unlikely combination. Blum was a fin-de-siècle aesthete who became the spiritual and political leader of the French non-Communist Left in the first half of this century. Camus, best known to millions of readers worldwide for his novels THE STRANGER and THE PLAGUE, was a wartime-Resistance figure who played a prominent part in post-1945 intellectual life in France before dying tragically young in a car crash in 1960. Aron, a contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre in the brilliant intellectual generation of inter-war France, was a political theorist, journalist, and critic of Communism who made a major contribution to the recent revival of liberal thought in contemporary France. In THE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY, Tony Judt offers a distinctive and original reinterpretation of the writings and public role of these three men, arguing that they have much in common. All three were in some crucial respect ‘outsiders. ' Both Blum and Aron were Jews while Camus was a native of French Algeria. And they were all, for much of their lifetimes, the object of heated, often violent polemics, the victims of attacks and misunderstanding from the mainstream of French political and intellectual life, Left and Right alike. Despite the great differences in their backgrounds, their interests, and their views, all three were men of integrity who took seriously their responsibilities as public intellectuals, eschewing fashion and popularity. It was only in old age (for Blum and Aron), or posthumously in Camus's case, that they became respected and admired for their courage and their opinions-their longstanding marginality and the hostility they provoked quietly forgotten. As a consequence, and despite the fact that for much of their lifetimes they wrote and lived against the grain of French political and intellectual fashion, it is now possible to understand these three Frenchmen as exemplary. At the close of the century, when France is still deeply troubled by the memory of political and moral compromises that have divided the nation and left it with an ambivalent relationship to its recent past, Leon Blum, Albert Camus and Raymond Aron-precisely because they do not fit easily into the conventional story of twentieth-century French public and intellectual life-can now be appreciated in full. As Judt concludes in his study of these men, they represent not just a distinctive and illuminating key to the intellectual and political culture f their era, they also stood and stand for much that is the best, and most enduring, in modern French life and thought. inventory #9832.

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