The Intellectual Resistance In Europe

Author : James D. Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0674457765

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The Intellectual Resistance in Europe by James D. Wilkinson Pdf

Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir in France. Eich, Richter, and B ll in Germany. Pavese, Levi, and Silone in Italy. These are among the defenders of human dignity whose lives and work are explored in this widely encompassing work. James D. Wilkinson examines for the first time the cultural impact of the anti-Fascist literary movements in Europe and the search of intellectuals for renewal--for social change through moral endeavor--during World War II and its immediate aftermath. It was a period of hope, Wilkinson asserts, and not of despair as is so frequently assumed. Out of the shattering experience of war evolved the bracing experience of resistance and a reaffirmation of faith in reason. Wilkinson discovers a spiritual revolution taking place during these years of engagement and views the participants, the engag s, as heirs of the Enlightenment. Drawing on a wide range of published writing as well as interviews with many intellectuals who were active during the 1940s, Wilkinson explains in the fullest context ever attempted their shared opposition to tyranny during the war and their commitment to individual freedom and social justice afterward. Wilkinson has written a cultural history for our time. His wise and subtle understanding of the long-range significance of the engages is a reminder that the reassertion of humanist values is as important as political activism by intellectuals.

Author : Mark Hewitson,Matthew D'Auria
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857457271

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Europe in Crisis by Mark Hewitson,Matthew D'Auria Pdf

The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.

Author : Emma Kuby
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501732805

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Political Survivors by Emma Kuby Pdf

In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a "hallucinatory repetition" of Nazi Germany's most terrible crime. In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what followed his appeal, as prominent members of the wartime Resistance from throughout Western Europe united to campaign against the continued existence of inhumane internment systems around the world. The International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime brought together those originally deported for acts of anti-Nazi political activity who believed that their unlikely survival incurred a duty to bear witness for other victims. Over the course of the next decade, these pioneering activists crusaded to expose political imprisonment, forced labor, and other crimes against humanity in Franco's Spain, Maoist China, French Algeria, and beyond. Until now, the CIA's secret funding of Rousset's movement has remained in the shadows. Kuby reveals this clandestine arrangement between European camp survivors and American intelligence agents. She also brings to light how Jewish Holocaust victims were systematically excluded from Commission membership – a choice that fueled the group's rise, but also helped lead to its premature downfall. The history that she unearths provides a striking new vision of how wartime memory shaped European intellectual life and ideological struggle after 1945, showing that the key lessons Western Europeans drew from the war centered on "the camp," imagined first and foremost as a site of political repression rather than ethnic genocide. Political Survivors argues that Cold War dogma and acrimony, tied to a distorted understanding of WWII's chief atrocities, overshadowed the humanitarian possibilities of the nascent anti-concentration camp movement as Europe confronted the violent decolonizing struggles of the 1950s.

Author : David Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351492645

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Romain Rolland and the Politics of the Intellectual Engagement by David Fisher Pdf

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. Best known as a biographer of Beethoven and for his novel, Jean-Christophe, Rolland was one of those nonconforming writers who perceived a crisis of bourgeois society in Europe before the Great War, and who consciously worked to discredit and reshape that society in the interwar period. Analyzing Rolland's itinerary of engaged stands, David James Fisher clarifies aspects of European cultural history and helps decipher the ambiguities at the heart of all forms of intellectual engagement.Moving from text to context, Fisher organizes the book around a series of debates--Rolland's public and private collisions over specific committed stands--introducing the reader to the polemical style of French intellectual discourse and offering insight into what it means to be a responsible intellectual. Fisher presents Rolland's private ruminations, extensive research, and reexamination of the function and style of the French man of letters. He observes that Rolland experimented with five styles of commitment: oceanic mysticism linked to progressive, democratic politics; free thinking linked to antiwar dissent; pacifism and, ultimately, Gandhism; antifacism linked to anti-imperialism, antiracism, and all-out political resistance to fascism; and, most controversially, fellow traveling as a form of socialist humanism and the positive side of antifascism. Fisher views Rolland's engagement historically and critically, showing that engaged intellectuals of that time were neither naive propagandists nor dupes of political parties.David James Fisher makes a case for the committed writer and hopes to re-ignite the debate about commitment. For him, Romain Rolland sums up engagement in a striking, dialectical formula:

Author : Barbara J. Falk
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9639241393

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The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe by Barbara J. Falk Pdf

"In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falk's sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films."--Jacket.

Author : Friedrich Heer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Europe
ISBN : LCCN:lc66067141

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The Intellectual History of Europe by Friedrich Heer Pdf

Author : Walter L. Adamson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520261532

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Embattled Avant-Gardes by Walter L. Adamson Pdf

This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert Read. In conclusion, Adamson rises to the defense of the modernists, suggesting that their ideas are relevant to current efforts to think through what it might mean to create a vibrant, aesthetically satisfying form of cultural democracy.

Author : Sarah J. Young
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787359918

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Writing Resistance by Sarah J. Young Pdf

In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorism and revolutionary activity were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortress near St Petersburg. The regime of indeterminate sentences in isolation caused severe mental and physical deterioration among the prisoners, over half of whom died. But the survivors fought back to reform the prison and improve the inmates’ living conditions. The memoirs many survivors wrote enshrined their story in revolutionary mythology, and acted as an indictment of the Tsarist autocracy’s loss of moral authority. Writing Resistance features three of these memoirs, all translated into English for the first time. They show the process of transforming the regime as a collaborative endeavour that resulted in flourishing allotments, workshops and intellectual culture – and in the inmates running many of the prison’s everyday functions. Sarah J. Young’s introductory essay analyses the Shlissel´burg memoirs’ construction of a collective narrative of resilience, resistance and renewal. It uses distant reading techniques to explore the communal values they inscribe, their adoption of a powerful group identity, and emphasis on overcoming the physical and psychological barriers of the prison. The first extended study of Shlissel´burg’s revolutionary inmates in English, Writing Resistance uncovers an episode in the history of political imprisonment that bears comparison with the inmates of Robben Island in South Africa’s apartheid regime and the Maze Prison in Belfast during the Troubles. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the Russian revolution, carceral history, penal practice and behaviours, and prison and life writing.

Author : John William Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UOMDLP:abf4172:0001.001

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History of the Intellectual Development of Europe by John William Draper Pdf

Author : Gregory D. Sumner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0801430208

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Dwight MacDonald and the Politics Circle by Gregory D. Sumner Pdf

Sumner finds the clearest expression of Macdonald's creative power and of the political thinking that would eventually bridge the "Old Left" and the "New".

Author : John William Draper
Publisher : New York, Harper
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012768354

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A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe by John William Draper Pdf

Author : MATS ANDRÉN
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800735705

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Thinking Europe by MATS ANDRÉN Pdf

Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European identity across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the post-war period. Applying a broad range of original sources this unique work will be key reading for students and researchers studying European History, European Studies, Political History and related fields.

Author : Peter Schrag
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299320201

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The World of Aufbau by Peter Schrag Pdf

Aufbau—a German-language weekly, published in New York and circulated nationwide—was an essential platform for the generation of refugees from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in every part of the world. In its pages Aufbau focused on concerns that strongly impacted this community in the aftermath of World War II: anti-Semitism in the United States and in Europe, the ever-changing immigration and naturalization procedures, debates about the designation of Hitler refugees as enemy aliens, questions about punishment for the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, the struggle for compensation and restitution, and the fight for a Jewish homeland. The book examines the columns and advertisements that chronicled the social and cultural life of that generation and maintained a detailed account of German-speaking cultures in exile. Peter Schrag is the first to present a definitive account of the influential publication that brought postwar refugees together and into the American mainstream.

Author : Derek W. Urwin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0810828383

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Historical Dictionary of European Organizations by Derek W. Urwin Pdf

Offers an introduction to the complex and changing world of European international organizations.

Author : Roland N. Stromberg
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017415311

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European Intellectual History Since 1789 by Roland N. Stromberg Pdf

For courses in European Intellectual History. An exploration of the major issues in thought -- from the French Revolution to Structuralism and beyond.