{"product_id":"sartre-against-stalinism-9781571815422","title":"Sartre Against Stalinism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tMost critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard to the USSR and the French Communist Party. But his relationship with the Marxist Left was much more complex and co tradictory than most accounts admit. This book offers a political defence of Sartre and shows how, from a relatively apolitical stance in the 1930s, Sartre became increasingly involved in the politics of the Left; though he always distrusted Stalinism, he was sometimes driven to ally himself with it because of the force of its argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"…this is a worthy analysis of the dangerous and ambiguous political liaisons of an important twentieth-century thinker. The argument is persuasive in showing that the subject of this book was separate and apart from what E.P. Thopson stigmatised as the 'shambles' of the 'tenacious posthumous Stalinism of the French Communist intelligentsia'\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLabour History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"... an outstanding contribution to Sartre studies. There is nothing quite like it, and Birchall's scholarship is formidable ... The author has an impressive mastery of his topic, the deep intellectual and political background needed for this study, and has gone into the many sources needed to answer his questions.\"  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Aronson\u003c\/b\u003e, Wayne State University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Th[e] understanding and separation of different elements of the French left is one of the strengths of Birchall's book ... [It] provides a useful and accessible historical analysis of Sartre's writing and politics, and offers a full, convincing and critical account of why Sartre should be reclaimed to an anti-Stalinist position…As a clear outline of Sartre’s relation to the French left\u003c\/i\u003e Sartre Against Stalinism \u003ci\u003eis an interesting and informative read.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Socialism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"The question of what kind of politics and what kind of organisation the movement needs is practical and urgent. [This] account of Sartre as a fighter for freedom – however flawed a fighter – is timely and invaluable.”  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocialist Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliographical Note\u003cbr\u003e \tAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e \tChronology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction: Claiming the Corpse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: THE MAKING OF A REBEL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘La Communiste’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e The Threat of Fascism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e War within War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: POSTWAR CHOICES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e The Better Choice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Materialism or Revolution?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e The Spectre of Trotsky\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e The RDR\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Which Camp?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: RAPPROCHMENT WITH STALINISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Reorientation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Dangerous Liaison\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Debate with the Far Left\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Laying the Ghost\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: TOWARDS A NEW LEFT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e From Practice to Theory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e The Battle over Algeria\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/b\u003e Rebuilding the Left\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/b\u003e May to December\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/b\u003e Conclusion: Sartre’s Century?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041423032663,"sku":"9781571815422","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571815422.jpg?v=1750950215","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sartre-against-stalinism-9781571815422","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}