Michael Kelly is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on French intellectual movements and French culture of the twentieth century, on European language policy and on languages in war and conflict.

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• Introduction to the Second EditionIntroduction to the First Edition1 Beginnings 1845–19291 Marx, Engels, and the Hegelian Dialectic2 Marxism in France before 19173 Hegel in France4 The 1920s2 The Irruption 1929–391 Marxism and the Crisis of the 1930s2 A New Elaboration3 The Self-Inverting Dialectic4 Stalin and Dogmatism5 In Defence of Materialism3 War and Post-War 1939–481 Marxism and the Second World War2 Liberation and Reconstruction3 Towards an Objective Idealism4 Back to Hegel4 Cold War 1948–561 Two Camps2 Nadir of Philosophy3 Stirrings of Recovery4 The Early Althusser5 Critiques of the Existentialist Dialectic5 New Beginnings 1956–621 1956 and its Aftermath2 Lefebvre’s Problems with Marxism3 Dialectics and Dialogue4 Existentialism and the Dialectic6 Innovations 1962–8 Part One1 Althusser: Against Inversion2 Contradiction and Overdetermination3 The New Model Dialectic4 Althusser and Garaudy7 Explorations 1962–8 Part Two1 The Destalinisation of Philosophy2 Godelier and the Cybernetic Dialectic3 Tran Due Thao’s Materialist Inversion4 Garaudy’s pluralist dialectic5 Sève and the Scientific Dialectic8 Changes 1968–741 19682 The Fate of Garaudy3 Development of Althusser’s Theory4 Sève and the New Consensus9 New Directions 1974–801 Jaeglé, Science, and Dialectics2 Labica Against Philosophy3 D’Hondt on Contradiction and Difference4 Mercier-Josa and the Detour via Hegel10 Conclusion to the First Edition11 Annotated Bibliography1 French History2 French Marxism3 Individual French Marxists12 Marxism and Faith13 Les Lendemains qui Pensent14 French Intellectuals and Zhdanovism15 The Historical Emergence of Everyday Life16 Towards a Heuristic Method: Sartre and Lefebvre17 Demystification: A Dialogue Between Barthes and LefebvreReferencesIndex