The first volume—from 1944 to 1968—covers the years of Sartre and Beauvoir and their refutations, their contrasting relationships with communism, the upheaval of 1956, the Algerian War, the beginnings of Third Worldism, the emergence of the Gaullist moment and its subsequent challenge: an era dominated by the test of history, the influence of communism, and the gradual disillusionment that followed. The second volume—from 1968 to 1989—ranges from left-wing utopianism, Solzhenitsyn, and the struggle against totalitarianism, to the “new philosophers,” the rise of ecological consciousness, and the disorientation of the 1980s: an era marked by a crisis of the future and which saw the consolidation of the hegemony of the humanities. These are some of the milestones of this saga, which covers one of the most effervescent and creative periods in French and global intellectual history, from Sartre to Lévi-Strauss, from Foucault to Lacan.