Jean-Marie Domenach was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic

Christian left

The Christian left is a term originating in the United States, used to describe a spectrum of left-wing Christian political and social movements which largely embraces social justice....

 thinker.

He took over in 1957 the editorship of Esprit

Esprit (magazine)

Esprit is a French literary magazine. Founded in October 1932 by Emmanuel Mounier, it was the principal review of personalist intellectuals of the time. From 1957 to 1976, it was directed by Jean-Marie Domenach. Paul Thibaud directed it from 1977 to 1989. The philosopher Paul Ricoeur often...

, the literary and political journal of personalism

Personalism

Personalism is a philosophical school of thought searching to describe the uniqueness of a human person in the world of nature, specifically in relation to animals...

 founded in 1945 by Emmanuel Mounier

Emmanuel Mounier

Emmanuel Mounier was a French philosopher.Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French Personalist movement, and founder and director of Esprit, the magazine which was the organ of the movement. Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne...

 and continued from 1950 to 1957 by Albert Béguin. He retired voluntarily from this aged 54, then writing and teaching at university level. Opposed to torture during the Algerian War

Torture during the Algerian War

Elements of the French Armed Forces as well as of the opposing Algerian National Liberation Front made use of torture during the Algerian War of Independence , creating an ongoing public controversy. Pierre Vidal-Naquet estimates that there were "possibly hundreds of thousands of instances of...

, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre.

He studied at the Lycée du Parc

Lycée du Parc

The Lycée du Parc is a public secondary school located in the sixth arrondissement of Lyon, France. Its name comes from the Parc de la Tête d'Or, one of Europe's largest urban parks, which is situated nearby....

 in Lyon

Lyon

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.

Works

• Gilbert Dru: celui qui croyait au ciel (1947)
• La propagande politique (1950)
• Communism in Western Europe (1951) with Mario Einaudi
  Mario Einaudi
  Mario Einaudi was a scholar of political theory and European comparative politics. He was born in 1905 in Italy. His father, Luigi Einaudi, was one of Italy’s great economic thinkers and later became the first President of the Republic of Italy .[3] A graduate of the University of Turin’s...
  
  , 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
  Thomas Molnar
  Molnár Tamás, Thomas Molnar or Molnar, Thomas Steven was a Catholic philosopher, historian and political theorist.- Life :...
  
   and Augusto Del Noce
• Emmanuel Mounier (1972)
• Le christianisme éclaté (1974) with Michel de Certeau
  Michel de Certeau
  Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences.-Education:...
  
  
• 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, Denise Rendu
• Beaucoup de gueule et peu d'or. Journal d'un réfractaire (1944–1977) (2001)