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Les Temps Modernes (lit. ' Modern Times ') was a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Its first issue was published in October 1945. It was named after the 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin. [1]
Jean Durtal, real name Marie-Charlotte Sandberg-Charpentier (16 February 1905 [1] - 27 June 1999) was a 20th-century French poet, novelist, and woman of letters.. She was also a journalist and directed the journal Les Temps Modernes ans was a member and then president of the Société des gens de lettres.
The symbolic initiation of this new phase in Sartre's work is packaged in the introduction he wrote for a new journal, Les Temps modernes, in October 1945. Here he aligned the journal, and thus himself, with the Left and called for writers to express their political commitment. [113]
In France there are many magazines which are mostly literary magazines, women's magazines and news magazines. [1] One of the early literary magazines, Nouvelles de la république des lettres, was launched by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. [2]
French philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty named their journal, Les Temps modernes, after it. [18] Modern Times earned $1.8 million in North American theatrical rentals during its release, [2] becoming one of the top-grossing films of 1936. It was the most popular film at the British box office in 1935 ...
Its name was invented by the literary critic Bernard Frank, who referred to several people by the ironic name of "hussards" (French for "hussars") in an article published in December 1952 in the journal Les Temps modernes, titled "Grognards et hussards" ("Old Guards and Hussars").
Gorz published one of Illich's speeches in Les Temps Modernes in 1961 and met him in 1971 in Le Nouvel Observateur at the publishing of Deschooling Society (Une Société sans école). Gorz later published a summary of Illich's Tools for Conviviality (1973) under the title Libérer l'avenir (Free Future).
Besides his teaching, Merleau-Ponty was also political editor for the leftist journal Les Temps modernes from its founding in October 1945 until December 1952. In his youth, he had read Karl Marx's writings [12] and Sartre even claimed that Merleau-Ponty converted him to Marxism. [13] E. K.