From Revolution to Ethics
May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2007
488 pages
978-0-7735-7621-6 (ISBN)
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A bold history of French intellectual life and the legacies of 1960's radicalism.
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Bourg Julian:
Julian Bourg is associate dean for the Core and associate professor of history at Boston College. He is editor of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France and translator of Claude Lefort, Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy.Julian Bourg is associate professor of history, Boston College, and editor of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France.
Julian Bourg is associate dean for the Core and associate professor of history at Boston College. He is editor of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France and translator of Claude Lefort, Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy.Julian Bourg is associate professor of history, Boston College, and editor of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Cobblestone Beaches: Normative Contradictions of the May Revolt
- PART ONE: THE SABRE AND THE KEYHOLE: FRENCH MAOISM, VIOLENCE, AND PRISONER DIGNITY
- 2 A Press Conference
- 3 Violence and the Gauche prolétarienne
- 4 The President's Man and the State's Thumb
- 5 Popular Justice and Incarcerated Leftists
- 6 The Groupe d'information sur les prisons
- 7 These Modern Bastilles
- PART TWO: SPINOZA ON PROZAC: FROM INSTITUTIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF DESIRE
- 8 Anti-Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Desire
- 9 Anti-Oedipus: Redux and Reception, Ethics and Origins
- 10 Institutional Psychotherapy and the La Borde Psychiatric Clinic
- 11 Félix Guattari's Devolution
- 12 Gilles Deleuze's Spinozist Ethics 144
- 13 Schizophrenia and Fascism
- 14 Craziness Is a Dead End
- PART THREE: "YOUR SEXUAL REVOLUTION IS NOT OURS": FRENCH FEMINIST "MORALISM" AND THE LIMITS OF DESIRE
- 15 Gender and '68: Tensions from the Start
- 16 Guy Hocquenghem's Dark Encounter with Feminism
- 17 Feminism, Law, Rape, and Leftist Male Reaction
- 18 Boy Trouble: French Pedophiliac Discourse of the 1970s
- 19 Desire Has Its Limits
- PART FOUR: WHEN ALL BETS ARE OFF: ETHICAL JANSENISM AND THE NEW PHILOSOPHERS
- 20 The Main Event
- 21 Between the Union of the Left and Jansenism
- 22 Maurice Clavel
- 23 The Angel in the World
- 24 The Dialectic by the Side of the Road
- 25 John Locke Was Not French, or The Varieties of Ethical Experience
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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