Romain Rolland and the Politics of the Intellectual Engagement

ISBN-13: 9781138532090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 378 str.

David Fisher

Opis

This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland (1866-1944)--French novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in 1915--focuses on his experiments with political commitment against the backdrop of European history between the two world wars

Spis treści

1: Fin De SiÈCle Idealist; 1: The Languages of Engagement; 2: An Oceanic Sensibility; 3: Above the Battle; 2: The Political and Ideological Ambiguities of Rollandism in the 1920s; 4: The Intellectual’s International; 5: The Rolland-Barbusse Debate; 6: Gandhian; 3: Left-Wing Cultural Politics of the 1930s; 7: Intellectual Antifascism and the Amsterdam-Pleyel Movement; 8: Antifascist Resistance; 9: The Politics of Critical Support; 10: The Cultural Politics of the Popular Front; 11: The Politics of Uncritical Support; Conclusion: Pessimism of the Intelligence, Optimism of the Will

O autorze

David Fisher