Jean-Marie Domenach

Background

Domenach was born in Lyon, where he studied at the Lycée du Parc.

Career

He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker. He retired voluntarily from this aged 54, then writing and teaching at university level Opposed to torture during the Algerian War, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre.

He died in Paris, aged 75.

Works

• book

  • La propagande politique

Views

He took over in 1957 the editorship of Esprit, the literary and political journal of personalism founded in 1945 by Emmanuel Mounier and continued from 1950 to 1957 by Albert Béguin.