ABSTRACT
DeJouvenel offers intriguing crossover points between liberal and conservative thought, nationalist and cosmopolitan sentiment, and rightist and leftist political action. In this sense, deJouvenel is a reflection of the main tendencies of French life and thought between the two world wars, and the major movements in French thought after the second world war. DeJouvenel's opposition to this move, and urging of Anglo-French action to curb Hitler notwithstanding, the interview itself had a disorientation and demobilizing impact. The idea of the French army and the subjugation of France by Germany had deeply shaken and disordered the spirits of those who had to live under it. Each social science faced a crisis in confidence after the end of the Second World War, a struggle with the earlier taken-for-grantedness that everyone knew what the major social science taxonomies represented, and in consequence, what a political science meant.
