Political Science Communism & Socialism
When Poetry Ruled the Streets
The French May Events of 1968
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2001
- Category
- Communism & Socialism, France
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780791449660
- Publish Date
- May 2001
- List Price
- $45.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780791449653
- Publish Date
- May 2001
- List Price
- $128.95
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Description
Offers a complete survey of the French May Events of 1968 through narrative, analysis, and documents.
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.
About the authors
Andrew Feenberg is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Critical Theory of Technology, Alternative Modernity, Questioning Technology, Transforming Technology, and Heidegger and Marcuse.
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Jim Freedman is on leave from the University of Western Ontario, serving as Programme Analyst in the Office of the Iraq Programme at the United Nations in New York.
Editorial Reviews
"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
