| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 341 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Intellectual History of the Modern Age |
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Intellectual history of the modern age.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Early Years -- Chapter 2. Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale -- Chapter 3. British Utilitarianism (1896-1904) -- Chapter 4. The Dreyfus Affair (1897-1901) -- Chapter 5. L'École Libre des Sciences Politiques and Socialism (1902-1914) -- Chapter 6. British Affairs: Empire, Methodism, and English Socialists (1905-1914) -- Chapter 7. World War I (1914-1918) -- Chapter 8. Post War (1918-1924) -- Chapter 9. "The World Crisis" Reconsidered (1924-1932) -- Chapter 10. The Era of Tyrannies (1932-1937) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
In this densely contextualized biography, K. Steven Vincent describes how Élie Halévy (1870-1937), one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third Republic, confronted the Dreyfus Affair, World War I, and the rise of interwar totalitarianism while defending a distinctively French version of liberalism |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2020) |
| Subject |
Halévy, Élie, 1870-1937.
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| SUBJECT |
Halévy, Élie, 1870-1937 fast |
| Subject |
Historians -- France -- Biography
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Intellectuals -- France -- Biography
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General.
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Historians
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Intellectual life
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Intellectuals
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051441
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France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0812296974 |
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9780812296976 |
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