Cold War bipolarity threatened the autonomy of French intellectual culture

Evidence

Without an autonomous France, there will no longer be a place for meaningful cultural expression by French intellectuals. Yet even to keep such a possibility alive in the emerging Cold War context will be an all-consuming struggle. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 489

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Cold War reconfiguration of intellectual alignments — third-way projects like the RDR and the decline of engaged literature. — connects to: Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 864; Postwar France saw America and the Soviet Union as rival visions of the future — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 546; Political rifts among French intellectuals mirrored the Cold War’s polarizing pressure — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 788 (+1 more)