Preface to the English edition by Philippe Gavi
Introduction: an adventure which begins on a certain day
1. Fellow-traveler of the Communist Party
2. Paranoia in institutions
3. 1968: May, Prague, the break with the Communist Party
4. From Flaubert to the Maoists
5. Illegalism and Leftism
6. The Maoists and the intellectuals
7. Rally and marginality
8. The new values
9. Mohamed’s reaction
10. "It is right to rebel"
11. What makes a petty bourgeois or a worker rebel?
12. The militant sacrifice
13. "Equal pay for equal work"
14. Protest and repression
15. On power
16. The Chilean coup
17. Politics and sincerity
18. The Israeli-Arab War
19. Revolutionary man
20. "What would you have decided?"
21. Freedom regained
Conclusion: a triangular relation of forces
Index
Biography
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80). The foremost French thinker and writer of the early post-war years. His books have exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, art and politics.
Philippe Gavi is a French journalist specialising in media issues. With Sartre, he was a founder of the French newspaper Libération.
Pierre Victor (1945–2003). Born Benny Lévy, Victor became a prominent figure on the Maoist left during the May 1968 civil unrest in France, and was Sartre’s personal secretary from 1974 to 1980. After embracing Orthodox Judaism, he emigrated to Israel in 1997 where he helped establish the Institut d'études lévinassiennes.
