"This book is fascinating to read. The May events in France are very important. They are open to numerous interpretations but certainly they provide the only example of a government of an advanced industrial society brought to its feet, if only for a couple of weeks. They resonate backwards with the history of revolutions and forward to 'the new social movements' and the upheavals and reorganizations in Europe that continue to this day." — Mark Poster, author of Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusser<br /><br />"I know of no other book quite like it. It authoritatively captures an important moment in twentieth-century history, and does so with real verve and flair. I could not imagine teaching the sixties without recourse to it." — Paul Thomas, University of California, Berkeley

More than a history, this book is a passionate reliving of the French May Events of 1968. The authors, ardent participants in the movement in Paris, documented the unfolding events as they pelted the police and ran from the tear gas grenades. Their account is imbued with the impassioned efforts of the students to ignite political awareness throughout society. Feenberg and Freedman select documents, graffiti, brochures, and posters from the movement and use them as testaments to a very different and exciting time. Their commentary, informed by the subsequent development of French culture and politics, offers useful background information and historical context for what may be the last great revolutionary challenge to the capitalist system.
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Offers a complete survey of the French May Events of 1968 through narrative, analysis, and documents.
List of Illustrations Foreword by Douglas Kellner Preface Abbreviations ONE. WHAT HAPPENED IN MAY: A CHRONICLE Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman Part I: Students versus Society La Phase Nanterroise Friday Red I The Concept of Cobblestones The Long Trek and a Short Truce The Grand Deception Friday Red II Monday, May 13 Part II: Society versus the State From the Sorbonne to Renault—Students and Workers A La Sorbonne Au Th´eˆatre de l'Od´eon A la T´el´evision The Government Triangle of Contention Friday Red III De Gaulle or Not de Gaulle Part III: The Last Act Workers versus Negotiations The Gaullist Gap CGT and Communists Re-Revolutionize The Return of Cohn-Bendit The End of May The Aftermath TWO. DOCUMENTS OF THE MAY MOVEMENT Commentary and translation by Andrew Feenberg Introduction Essay I. Technocracy and Student Revolt The Texts THE AMNESTY OF BLINDED EYES ADDRESS TO ALL WORKERS JOIN THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNE OF THE IMAGINATION Essay II. In the Service of the People The Texts THE “IN-HOUSE” STRIKE AT THE MINISTRY OF URBAN AFFAIRS RESEARCH BUREAUS: WALL-TO-WALL CARPETING AND REVOLUTION JOURNAL OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION COMMITTEE Essay III. The Worker-Student Alliance The Texts THE STUDENTS AT FLINS THE PEOPLE'S STUDIO Essay IV. Self-Management: Strategy and Goal The Texts THE REVOLUTIONARY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE SORBONNE THE UNIVERSITY AS A RED BASE NANTES: A WHOLE TOWN DISCOVERS THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE FROM ROADBLOCKS TO SELF-DEFENSE Bibliography Index
Les mer
"This book is fascinating to read. The May events in France are very important. They are open to numerous interpretations but certainly they provide the only example of a government of an advanced industrial society brought to its feet, if only for a couple of weeks. They resonate backwards with the history of revolutions and forward to 'the new social movements' and the upheavals and reorganizations in Europe that continue to this day." — Mark Poster, author of Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusser"I know of no other book quite like it. It authoritatively captures an important moment in twentieth-century history, and does so with real verve and flair. I could not imagine teaching the sixties without recourse to it." — Paul Thomas, University of California, Berkeley
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780791449653
Publisert
2001-05-16
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
399 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
220

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Andrew Feenberg is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He is the author of Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory; Critical Theory of Technology; and Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory. He is the coeditor of Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia (with Robert Pippin and Charles P. Webel) and Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (with Alastair Hannay). Jim Freedman is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. He has authored or edited many books, the most recent of which is Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World.