Uncivil War

Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria, Second Edition

By: James D. Le Sueur, Pierre Bourdieu (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 1 December 2005 | Edition Number 2

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Uncivil War is a provocative study of the intellectuals who confronted the loss of France's most prized overseas possession: colonial Algeria. Tracing the intellectual history of one of the most violent and pivotal wars of European decolonization, James D. Le Sueur illustrates how key figures such as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine Tillion, Jacques Soustelle, Raymond Aron, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Memmi, Frantz Fanon, Mouloud Feraoun, Jean Amrouche, and Pierre Bourdieu agonized over the "Algerian question." As Le Sueur argues, these individuals and others forged new notions of the nation and nationalism, giving rise to a politics of identity that continues to influence debate around the world. This edition features an important new chapter on the intellectual responses to the recent torture debates in France, the civil war in Algeria, and terrorism since September 11. James D. Le Sueur is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the editor of Mouloud Feraoun's Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War (available in a Bison Books edition) and The Decolonization Reader.

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"An illuminating study of French intellectual responses to the war." New York Review of Books "An important work that analyzes the development of conceptions of identity in a dynamic historical situation, revealing their possibilities and limits. It deserves to be widely read and discussed." Journal of Modern History "Le Sueur's great achievement is to reveal the complexity of the political and moral choices faced by intellectuals and, by extension, by the wider populations of Algeria and France." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "Le Sueur has provided an insightful and lively interpretation of an ongoing moral, sociological, political, and intellectual struggle taking place on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea." American Historical Review "Uncivil War is indispensable reading for re-assessing the greater historical significance of the Algerian War." Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

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Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Intellectuals and Identity
Decolonization and Visions of Reconciliation
History and Franco-Muslim Reconciliation: French Colonialism in Algeria
Imbroglios and Intellectual Legitimacy: Anticolonialism and the Comite d'Action
French Educational Reform and the Problem of Reconciliation: The Service des Centres Sociaux
The Unbearable Solitude of Being: The Question of Albert Camus
Representing Rupture Five Shifting Views of Reconciliation: A Liberal Retreat from Empire?
Visions of Reconciliation, Visions of Rupture: Violence, Propaganda, and Representations of Difference
The Politics of Othering
The Legacy of Violence: Reflections on the Revolution in Two Nations
Conclusion: The Politics of Identity
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