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ABSTRACT:
This talk examines how decolonization informed the development of a new democratic theory at the end of the Algerian War, with far-reaching consequences for intellectual politics in France and beyond during the final decades of the twentieth century. It is based on a case study of the Cercle Saint-Just, a political discussion group whose meetings between 1963 and 1966 on the theme of democracy were attended by leading figures from the Parti Socialiste Unifi茅 (PSU), the Conf茅d茅ration fran莽aise d茅mocratique du travail, and leftist intellectuals previously associated with the groups Arguments and Socialisme ou Barbarie. By studying this group鈥檚 origins, the talk firstly offers a new perspective on the history of the French new left, that of an explicitly 鈥渓iberal new left鈥� in which anti-colonialism culminated not in 鈥渢hird wordlist鈥� neo-Marxism but a post-Marxist democratic theory. Liberalism was soon abandoned as an explicit identity amidst the ideological reshuffling which accompanied the establishment of the PSU. But this new left was nevertheless increasingly deeply influenced by a then half-forgotten French liberal tradition which the Cercle Saint-Just rehabilitated for a post-Marxist left amidst intense controversy over the identity and orientation of the PSU after the Algerian War. By recovering this history, the talk also casts new light on the origins of a phenomenon usually seen as beginning in the mid-1970s, France鈥檚 鈥渓iberal moment,鈥� offering a new explanation for its complicated relationship with the history of empire.

BIO:
Iain Stewart is a historian at UCL and a former fellow of the Institut d鈥櫭﹖udes avanc茅es de Paris.