FW: Peter Starr, Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May `68

 

 

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Subject: Peter Starr, Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May `68

 

Stanford UP | 1995 | ISBN 0804724466 | 285 Pages | PDF OCR | 5.3 MB In May 1968 the French nation was shaken to its foundations by a series of student protests that rapidly escalated into a general strike. Yet the immediate upshot of the May events was a massive electoral victory for General de Gaulle and for the constitution of 1958. Logics of Failed Revolt uses the events of May '68 as a historical touchstone for examining the political ramifications for that body of literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic work known as French theory.

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