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Author Bourg, Julian, 1969-

Title From revolution to ethics : May 1968 and contemporary French thought / Julian Bourg
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 468 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
Contents Cobblestone beaches: normative contradictions of the May revolt -- pt. 1. The sabre and the keyhole: French Maoism, violence, and prisoner dignity -- A press conference -- Violence and the Gauche proleþtarienne -- The president's man and the state's thumb -- Popular justice and incarcerated leftists -- The Groupe d'information sur les prisons -- These modern Bastilles
pt. 2. Spinoza on Prozac: from institutional psychotherapy to the philosophy of desire -- Anti-psychiatry and the philosophy of desire -- Anti-Oedipus: redux and reception, ethics and origins -- Institutional psychotherapy and the La Borde Psychiatric Clinic -- Feþlix Guattari's devolution -- Gilles Deleuze's Spinozist ethics -- Schizophrenia and fascism -- Craziness is a dead end
pt. 3. "Your sexual revolution is not ours": French feminist "moralism" and the limits of desire -- Gender and '68: tensions from the start -- Guy Hocquenghem's dark encounter with feminism -- Feminism, law, rape, and leftist male reaction -- Boy trouble: French pedophiliac discourse of the 1970s -- Desire has its limits
pt. 4. When all bets are off: ethical Jansenism and the new philosophers -- The main event -- Between the union of the left and Jansenism -- Maurice Clavel -- The angel in the world -- The dialectic by the side of the road -- John Locke was not French, or the varieties of ethical experience
Summary The French revolts of May 1968, the largest general strike in twentieth-century Europe, were among the most famous and colourful episodes of the twentieth century. Julian Bourg argues that during the subsequent decade the revolts led to a remarkable paradigm shift in French thought - the concern for revolution in the 1960s was transformed into a fascination with ethics. Challenging the prevalent view that the 1960s did not have any lasting effect, From Revolution to Ethics demonstrates that intellectuals and activists turned to ethics as the touchstone for understanding interpersonal, institutional, and political dilemmas. In absorbing and scrupulously researched detail Bourg explores the developing ethical fascination as it emerged among student Maoists courting terrorism, anti-psychiatric celebrations of madness, feminists mobilizing against rape, and pundits and philosophers championing human rights. Based on newly accessible archival sources and over fifty interviews with men and women who participated in the events of the era, From Revolution to Ethics provides a compelling picture of how May 1968 helped make ethics a compass for navigating contemporary global experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-448) and index
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Subject Social change -- France -- History -- 20th century
Social ethics -- France -- History -- 20th century
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
Postmodernism -- France
Feminism -- France -- History -- 20th century
General Strike, France, 1968.
Riots -- France -- Paris.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Feminism
Intellectual life
Moral conditions
Philosophy, French
Postmodernism
Riots
Social change
Social ethics
Achtundsechziger
Geistesleben
Ethik
Maiunruhen 1968
Generalstreik
Canvi social -- França -- S. XX.
Ètica social -- França.
Filosofia francesa -- S. XX.
Social change -- France -- History -- 20th century
Social ethics -- France -- History -- 20th century
Philosophy, French -- 20th century
Postmodernism -- France
Feminism -- France -- History -- 20th century
General Strike, France, 1968
Riots -- France -- Paris
Intellektuellt liv -- Frankrike.
1968.
SUBJECT France -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century
France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
Subject France
France -- Paris
Frankreich
França -- Vida intel·lectual -- S. XX.
France -- Moral conditions
France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007281860
ISBN 9780773576216
0773576215
1282866664
9781282866669
9786612866661
6612866667
0773581006
9780773581005