Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART 1 THE DREYFUS AFFAIR AND THE BIRTH OF THE 'INTELLECTUALS'
  • Fin-de-sïcle France
  • The Case of Alfred Dreyfus (1894-98)
  • The Birth of the 'Intellectuals'
  • Dreyfusard and Anti-dreyfusard Intellectuals
  • The Ligues and Action Fraṅaise
  • The Dreyfus Affair: From Zola's Trail to the Bloc Řpublicain
  • PART 2: FROM 'REPUBLICAN DEFENCE' TO DEFENCE OF THE PATRIE
  • Waldeck-Rosseau and the Defence of the Republic: ¡mile Combes and the Republic on the Offensive
  • Georges Sorel, Socialism, the Dreyfus Affair and the 'Dreyfusard Revolution'
  • Charles P̌guy, the Socialists, the Dreyfus Affair and the 'Dreyfusard Revolution'
  • Socialism, Nationalism, Internationalism and a New Threat of War?
  • The Rise of Action Fraṅaise
  • P̌guy's Nationalism
  • P̌guy, Daniel Haľvy and Sorel's Views of the Dreyfus Affair
  • Intellectuals and the Defence of the Homeland (Ďfence de la Patrie)
  • The Union Sacře (Sacred Union)
  • Romain Rolland: Au-dessus de la M̊ľe (Above the M̊lee)
  • PART 3: THE 1920s: FRENCH INTELLECTUALS AND PACIFISM, COMMUNISM, SURREALISM AND NATIONALISM
  • France: Victorious But at What Price?
  • Pacifism and Revolution
  • From Dada to Surrealism
  • Nationalism
  • Julien Benda and La Trahison des Clercs (The Betrayal of the Clerisy)
  • PART 4: FACISM, ANIT-FACISM, COMMUNISM, ANTI-COMMUNISM AND PACIFISM
  • The Stacisky Scandal and the Night of 6 February 1934
  • French Intellectuals and the USSR 1930-34
  • French Communism and the Intellectuals 1930-34
  • The Years 1934-36: French Facism
  • The Years 1934-36: French Anti-facism
  • From Popular Front to the Munich Agreement
  • September 1938: The Munich Agreement
  • August 1939: The Nazi-Soviet Pact
  • PART 5: THE OCCUPATION 1940-44: COLLABORATIONISM, COLLABORATION AND RESISTANCE
  • September 1939-June 1940: From the Phoney War to Defeat
  • Intellectuals and the Defeat of 1940
  • Intellectuals and Collaboration 1940-42
  • Intellectuals and the Resistance 1940-42
  • Intellectuals and Collaboration 1942-44
  • Intellectuals and the Resistance 1942-44
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.
  • The Dreyfus Affair and the birth of the 'intellectuals'
  • From 'republican defence' to defence of the Patrie
  • The 1920s: French intellectuals and pacifism, communism, surrealism and nationalism
  • Fascism, anti-fascism, communism, anti-communism and pacifism
  • The occupation 1940-44: collaborationaism, collaboration and resistance.