Jean-Marie Domenach (; 13 February 1922 – 5 July 1997) was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker. Domenach was born in

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, where he studied at the Lycée du Parc. In 1957, he took over the editorship of ''

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'', the literary and political journal of

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founded in 1945 by

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and followed (from 1950 to 1957) by

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. Domenach voluntarily retired from Esprit at age 54 and began writing and teaching at the university level. Opposed to torture during the Algerian War, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre. He died in

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, aged 75.

Works

*''Gilbert Dru: celui qui croyait au ciel'' (1947) *''La propagande politique'' (1950) *''Communism in Western Europe'' (1951; with Mario Einaudi and 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

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) *''Emmanuel Mounier'' (1972) *''Le christianisme éclaté'' (1974; with

Michel de Certeau Michel de Certeau (; 17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit priest and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion. He was ...

) *''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, and Denise Rendu) *''Beaucoup de gueule et peu d'or. Journal d'un réfractaire (1944–1977)'' (2001)

References

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