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Intellectual Origins Of The French New Left: Sartre, Lefebvre, Castoriadis, Arthur Eli Hirsh

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study is a critical appraisal of the intellectual origins of French New Left social theory, as it emerged from the leftist critiques of traditional Marxism carried out by such thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Lefebvre, and Cornelius Castoriadis in the period 1945 to 1968. Sartre’s existentialist critique revolved around what he considered to be the lack of a Marxist theory of subjectivity. Lefebvre’s revisionist critique questioned the validity of the traditional Marxist view of advanced industrial society. Castoriadis’ gauchiste critique denied Marxism revolutionary status, claiming it had been transformed into a bureaucratic ideology.

The study begins with a survey …

Le Correspondant, 1880-1890: Literary And Social Tendencies, Mary Kenny

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Several studies have been written on the treatment of literature in French periodicals. The importance of these studies has been stressed by Claude Pichois and André M. Rousseau in La Littérature comparée, although the authors were referring particularly to journals destined for the grand public. Still the Correspondant fits in with the reviews like L'Année littéraire, discussed by the text. The informative value of such periodicals is clearly emphasized with relation to the general knowledge of a writer and the period that is available there. In fact the authors will state later:

Au dix-neuvième siècle le certificat de …

The Formation Of The Paris Jacobins: Principles, Personalities And Politics, 1789-1793, Michael Stewart Reisch

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study is an analysis of the development of the Paris Jacobin Club from its origins in 1789 through the coup d'état of May 30-June 2, 1793. In each of the three principal sections of the thesis, the focus is on the dynamic rather than the static quality of the Society; on the interrelationship between the changing political environment and the changes in the Club's membership, leadership, strategy and tactics.

The first section of the thesis presents an account of the political, social, economic and intellectual forces which led to the outbreak of the Revolution of 1789 and contributed to …

Education For Revolution; Pamphlets And The Politicization Of French Society, 1787-1789, James Harvey Ojala

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Historians, long in the habit of looking upon the French Revolution as the "beginning" of the modern world, have concentrated their attention on the spectacular events of 1789 and later and have neglected in comparison the history of the years immediately preceding the Revolution. This imbalance between our knowledge of the Revolution and what we know of the events that led up to it has distorted our perspectives of the period. Consequently, the discontinuities of the era have been overemphasized while the importance of the continuities have been inaccurately minimized. In addition, despite the fact that the French Revolution is …