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The Spectrum of Political Engagement: Mounier, Benda, Nizan, Brasillach, Sartre
By (Author) David L. Schalk
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
History
843.91209
Paperback
202
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
28g
Why do artists, poets, philosophers, writers, and others who are usually classified as intellectuals leave the ivory tower to "dirty their hands" in the political arena In an effort to illuminate the intellectual's struggle to come to grips with the issues raised by political involvement, David Schalk examines the life and thought of five intellec