Abstract EN:

The phenomenon of commitment is intrinsic to the discourse of the two journals "Esprit" and "les temps modernes" against the Algerian war. Anticolonialist intellectuals acted on the level of the discourse of "truth" and on the level of conscience. In order to keep a small proportion of public opinion informed about the events that were taking place in Algeria, these intellectual journals played the role of a provisional counter-power. Speech acts became synonymous with actions. By studying the discourses of these two journals, two struggle strategies are being set up; they both reflect the two different trends of thought in the intellectual left; i. E. The Christian and the progressive ones.