Jean-Paul Sartre: Politics and Culture in Postwar France

List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Initial Thoughts PART I: SARTRE'S REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS Sartrean Politics: Transition and Division Sartre and de Gaulle: Two Conceptions of France Sartre and the Nizan Affair: The Cold War Politics of French Communism Sartre and the Politics of Violence: Maoism in the Aftermath of May 1968 PART II: SARTRE'S CULTURAL POLITICS Sartre and Commitment: Reinventing Cultural Forms Myth Versus Satire: The Dramatised Politics of Sartre's Nekrassov Ideological Art Criticism: Sartre and Giacometti Mediated Politics: Sartre and Chomsky Revisited Postscript: A Final Word on Sartre English Translation of the Principal Titles Cited in French Notes and References Bibliography Index