{"id":1578,"date":"2021-10-29T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:12:34","slug":"remicard-sereme-glossary-for-revolution-3-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/remicard-sereme-glossary-for-revolution-3-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Remicard Sereme | Glossary on Sartre and Gramsci for Revolution 3\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Remicard Sereme<\/h2>\n

Les Temps Modernes<\/em><\/h1>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Les Temps Modernes<\/em> was a French political and literary review founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his longtime companion, in October 1945. Its last volume was published in December 2018. Les Temps Modernes<\/em> remains one of the most prestigious French reviews with an international impact.<\/p>\n

Jean-Paul Sartre served as the first general director of the review and was accompanied by a writing committee composed of Raymond Aron, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Leiris, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Albert Olivier and Jean Paulhan, all of them influential philosophers and intellectuals of their time.<\/p>\n

Several articles that Sartre published in this review were later collected in several volumes of the sprawling anthology of his essays entitled Situations<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The review aimed to critically assess the political and social situations in both France and the world. As it was published regularly, it allowed the philosophers and intellectuals contributing to it to react almost immediately to what was happening during their time.<\/p>\n

During the first 20 years of its publication, Les Temps Modernes<\/em> addressed almost every aspect of intellectual and political life in France and internationally: the anticolonial struggle, polemics against structuralism, quarrels around Marxism, support for the Polish and Hungarian revolts, reflections on the Left\u2019s future, on the industrial society, and on what was called at the time the \u201cThird World.\u201d Simone de Beauvoir famously referred to the review\u2019s contributors as \u201cchasseurs de sens<\/em>\u201d (hunters of meaning).<\/p>\n

This review gave them the opportunity to be \u201cengaged\u201d on certain issues through their texts and engage their thoughts by giving them a practical orientation. Les Temps Modernes<\/em> was about contributing to the world and taking actions and positions rather than merely commenting as a passerby. It was aimed at intellectuals as a group and called for a sense of responsibility in them. Sartre wrote in the first text published in the review, Pr\u00e9sentation des Temps Modernes<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cL\u2019\u00e9crivain est en situation dans son \u00e9poque: chaque parole a des retentissements. Chaque silence aussi<\/em>\u201d (The writer is situated in his time: every word has repercussions, so does every silence).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The different contributions published in Les Temps Modernes <\/em>marked thinkers, professors, journalists and politicians of Sartre\u2019s generation but also of the following generations.<\/p>\n

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