The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century.

JUDT, Tony.

$375.00

Item Number: 146334

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

First edition of this outstanding work on three great French intellectuals of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Alain- with respect and in friendship Tony April ’99.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time.