Claude Bourdet, intellectuel résistant: éthique contestataire et journalisme, de la Résistance à la nouvelle gauche (1928-1959)
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Author:
Picon, Fabrice
Graduate Program:
French
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy
Document Type:
Dissertation
Date of Defense:
March 17, 2014
Committee Members:
Jennifer Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member John Philip Christman, Committee Member Todd Shepard, Special Member
Keywords:
Claude Bourdet French Resistance New Left Journalism Combat France Observateur Neutralism Anticolonialism World War II
Abstract:
This dissertation explores the concept of intellectual resistance in postwar France through the activities and writings of one of the most prominent postwar intellectuals, a former Resistance leader and journalist named Claude Bourdet. Using both published and archival sources, I argue that Bourdet represents a specific type of intellectual: an “intellectual-resistant.” Characterized by his medium, journalism, and his resolve to pursue the ideals and objectives of the Resistance, Bourdet engendered avant-garde political discourses and strategies via his constant effort to build unified movements to oppose national and international injustices. Spanning the late 1920s to the late 1950s, this dissertation reveals the intrinsic influence of the experience of the Resistance on the French New Left as well as the specificity of French media in the era of the Cold War and decolonization.