“The truth has many facets”

Stanley Hoffmann frequently disclaimed responsibility for his academic interests: Hitler was his unwelcome mentor. “It wasn’t I who chose to study world politics”, he wrote in an autobiographical essay, “World politics forced themselves on me at a very early age1”. Hoffmann was born in Vienna in November 1928. The next year, he and his mother left for France. He was an impressionable eleven year-old when the Germans invaded France and his “unquiet world collapsed2”. Stanley die

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Anne Sa’adah

Anne Sa’adah

Professeur de sciences politiques à Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH, USA). Auteur, entre autres publications, d’un livre intitulé Contemporary France : a Democratic Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), dédié à Stanley Hoffmann.