Screen LibraryIdealism beyond borders : the French revolutionary Left and the rise of humanitarianism, 1954-1988 /
"This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape between the 1960s to 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical Left third-worldism was displaced by the 'sans-frontieriste' movement as the do...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Human Rights in History
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"This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape between the 1960s to 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical Left third-worldism was displaced by the 'sans-frontieriste' movement as the dominant way of approaching suffering in what was then called the Third World. Third-worldism regarded these regions as the motor for international revolution, but revolutionary zeal disintegrated as a number of its regimes took on violent and dictatorial forms. Instead, the radical humanitarianism of the 'sans-fr |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 337 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-326) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107069589 1107069580 9781107644045 1107644046 |
| Index Number: | HV555 |
| CLC: | D756.50 |
| Call Number: | D756.50/D248 |
| Contents: | Part I. Idealism beyond Borders -- 1. A revolution in aid : the creation of sans-frontierisme -- 2. Aiding the revolution : influences on tiers-mondisme -- Part II. Violence and Morality -- 3. The struggle for international justice : tiers-mondiste engagement on the outskirts of May -- 4. Complicity, conscience and autocritique : reconfiguring attitudes to political violence -- 5. A rhetoric of responsibility : Vichy, the Holocaust, and suffering in the Third World -- Part III. Ethics and Polemics -- 6. Idealism beyond borders : the turn to sans-frontieriste spectacle -- 7. Controversy in a |