From the intellectual involvement to the indecision: Sartre and others… Cover Image

De l’engagement intellectuel à la déchirure : Sartre et les autres…
From the intellectual involvement to the indecision: Sartre and others…

Author(s): Ana Maria Alves
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: responsibility; intellectual; war; commitment; ethical

Summary/Abstract: Claiming responsibility is not exclusively ethical or moral, but also political andideological. The topic of the writer’s responsibility is at the heart of the main debatesin the period 1914-1945. The French Intelligentsia stated its stand on the effective andactive engagement of the intellectuals under the circumstances of having taken part inhistory. Until the end of the 1920s, intellectual commitment was feeble. It was onlyafter the end of the 1930s that the intellectual commitment was “theorized”, graduallytaking off to culminate with Sartre after the Second World War – the great figure of theintellectual committed.

  • Issue Year: 43/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-56
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French