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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459926203321

Autore

Bourg Julian <1969->

Titolo

From revolution to ethics [[electronic resource] ] : May 1968 and contemporary French thought / / Julian Bourg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-86666-4

9786612866661

0-7735-7621-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (489 p.)

Disciplina

306.0944/09045

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

France Moral conditions History 20th century

France Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1970's -- 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.