Jean-Marie Domenach (French: [dɔmənak]; 13 February 1922 – 5 July 1997) was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker.[1]
Domenach was born in Lyon, where he studied at the Lycée du Parc.[1] In 1949 he became an editor of Esprit, the literary and political journal of personalism and non-conformism founded in 1932 by Emmanuel Mounier.[1] In 1956, Domenach became chief editor. He voluntarily retired from Esprit in 1977, at age 54, and began writing and teaching at the university level.[1] Opposed to torture during the Algerian War, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre.[2] He died in Paris in 1997, aged 75.[1]
Works edit
- 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 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, and Denise Rendu)
- Beaucoup de gueule et peu d'or. Journal d'un réfractaire (1944–1977) (2001)
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Obituary: Jean-Marie Domenach". The Independent. 1997-07-14. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ René, Pucheu (July 1, 1998). "The indignant (or Jean-Marie Domenach as I believed to encounter him". Esprit. 244: 51–66 – via ProQuest.
- "Jean-Marie Domenach" – Article in the Encyclopédie de l'Agora