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Free Download H. Stuart Hughes, "The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation 1930-1960"
English | ISBN: 1138537160 | 2017 | 317 pages | EPUB | 650 KB
The years of political and social despair in France-from the great depression through the Nazi occupation, Resistance, and liberation, to the Algerian War-forced French intellectuals to rethink the values of their culture. Their faltering attempts to break out of a psychological impasse are the subject of this thoughtful and compassionate book by a distinguished American historian. In this first treatment of contemporary French thought to bridge philosophy, literature, and social science and to show its relation to comparable thinking in Germany, Britain, and the United States. Hughes also assesses the work of other writers in terms of their emotional biography and role in society.