Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1 The Force of Circumstance? 13
1 Decline and Fall
The French Intellectual Community at the End of the Third Republic 15
2 In the Light of Experience
The "Lessons" of Defeat and Occupation 26
3 Resistance and Revenge
The Semantics of Commitment in the Aftermath of Liberation 45
4 What Is Political Justice?
Philosophical Anticipations of the Cold War 75
Part 2 The Blood of Others 99
5 Show Trials
Political Terror in the East European Mirror, 1947-1953 101
6 The Blind Force of History
The Philosophical Case for Terror 117
7 Today Things Are Clear
Doubts, Dissent, and Awakenings 139
Part 3 The Treason of the Intellectuals 151
8 The Sacrifices of the Russian People
A Phenomenology of Intellectual Russophilia 153
9 About the East We Can Do Nothing
Of Double Standards and Bad Faith 168
10 America Has Gone Mad
Anti-Americanism in Historical Perspective 187
11 We Must Not Disillusion the Workers
On the Self-Abnegation and Elective Affinities of the Intellectual 205
Part 4 The Middle Kingdom 227
12 Liberalism, There Is the Enemy
On Some Peculiarities of French Political Thought 229
13 Gesta Dei per Francos
The Frenchness of French Intellectuals 246
14 Europe and the French Intellectuals
The Responsibilities of Power 275
Conclusion: Goodbye to All That? 293
Suggestions for Further Reading 321
Index 335