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Jean-Marie Domenach

 
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Domenach, Jean-Marie (b. 1922). French Catholic philosopher and journalist. Active in the Resistance in Lyon, he joined the staff of Mounier's review Esprit at the Liberation, becoming editor and later director. Domenach has written many essays on cultural and political themes, including Le Retour du tragique (1967), on the consciousness of tragedy in contemporary culture.

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Jean-Marie Domenach (1922 – 1997) was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker.

He took over in 1957 the editorship of Esprit, the literary and political journal of personalism founded in 1945 by Emmanuel Mounier and continued from 1950 to 1957 by Albert Béguin. He retired voluntarily from this aged 54, then writing and teaching at university level. Opposed to torture during the Algerian War, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre.

The prominent diplomat Jean-Luc Domenach is his son.

He studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon.

Works

  • Gilbert Dru: celui qui croyait au ciel (1947)
  • La propagande politique (1950)
  • Communism in Western Europe (1951) with Mario Einaudi, Aldo Garosci
  • Barrès par lui-même (1954)
  • Yougoslavie (1960) with Alain Pontault
  • Le retour du tragique (1963)
  • The Catholic Avant-Garde: French Catholicism Since World War II (1967) with Robert de Montvalon
  • Il vicolo cieco della sinistra (1970) with Thomas Molnar and Augusto Del Noce
  • Emmanuel Mounier (1972)
  • Le christianisme éclaté (1974) with Michel de Certeau
  • Le Sauvage et l' Ordinateur (1976)
  • Ce que je crois (1978)
  • L’autogestion c’est pas de la tarte (Maquis du Vercors) (1978) with Marcel Mermoz
  • Malraux (1979) with others
  • Enquête sur idées contemporaines (1981)
  • La Violence et ses causes (Unesco, 1980) as Violence and its Causes (1981)
  • Lettre à mes ennemis de classe (1984)
  • Des idées pour la politique (1988)
  • Ce qu'il faut enseigner: pour un nouvel enseignement général dans le secondaire (1989)
  • Approches de la modernité (1990)
  • Europe: le défi culturel (1990)
  • À temps et à contretemps (1991)
  • Une morale sans moralisme (1992)
  • La responsabilité, essai sur le fondement du civisme (1994)
  • Le crépuscule de la culture française? (1995)
  • Regarder la France. Essai sur le malaise français (1997)
  • Gilbert Dru, un chrétien résistant (1998) with Bernard Comte, Christian Rendu, Denise Rendu
  • Beaucoup de gueule et peu d'or. Journal d'un réfractaire (1944-1977) (2001)

 
 

 

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