Idealism Beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988

ISBN-13: 9781107644045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 347 str.

Eleanor Davey

Opis

Major new study of the political and intellectual origins of modern humanitarianism from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Recenzje

'Eleanor Davey's book makes enjoyable reading, with its caustic and forceful view of the pedigree of 'sans-frontiérisme', mapping an intellectual landscape which spreads beyond the borders of France and which is still to a large extent ours to this day.' Frédéric Thomas, Humanitarian Alternatives

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Idealism beyond Borders: 1. A revolution in aid: the creation of sans-frontiérisme; 2. Aiding the revolution: influences on tiers-mondisme; Part II. Violence and Morality: 3. The struggle for international justice: tiers-mondiste engagement on the outskirts of May; 4. Complicity, conscience and autocritique: reconfiguring attitudes to political violence; 5. A rhetoric of responsibility: Vichy, the Holocaust, and suffering in the third world; Part III. Ethics and Polemics: 6. Idealism beyond borders: the turn to sans-frontiériste spectacle; 7. Controversy in a humanitarian age: attacks on tiers-mondisme in the 1980s; Conclusion; Notes; Index.