The Wind From the East (eBook)

French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s - Second Edition

Richard Wolin (Autor)

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2017 | 2., Second Edition
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8844-3 (ISBN)

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How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless expose of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life.Wolin's riveting narrative reveals that Maoism's allure among France's best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.

Autor

Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His books, which include Heidegger's Children and The Seduction of Unreason (both Princeton), have been translated into ten languages. His articles and reviews have appeared in Dissent, the Nation, and the New Republic.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2017
• Vorwort: Richard Wolin
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: activism • Alain Badiou • Algerian war • atavism • authoritarianism • bolsheviks • Bourgeoisie • Capitalism • Catechism • Charles de Gaulle • Civil Society • class conflict • Claude Lefort • communism • Communist Party of China • comrade • Criticism • Cultural revolution • Daniel Cohn-Bendit • Dictatorship • Dissident • Emancipation • Ethos • Everyday life • Existentialism • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • French Communist Party • French left • Gaullism • Gay Liberation • Homosexuality • Identity politics • Ideology • imperialism • Individualism • Industrial society • Institution • Intellectual • Jacques Lacan • Jean-Paul Sartre • Jews • Julia Kristeva • Late Capitalism • left-wing politics • Leninism • Liberalism • liberation movement • Louis Althusser • Madness and Civilization • Manifesto • maoism • Maoism (Third Worldism) • Mao Zedong • Marxism • Marxism–Leninism • Marxist humanism • May 1968 events in France • Michel Foucault • militant • Militant (Trotskyist group) • Modernity • Narcissism • narrative • New Philosophers • New Social Movements • Orthodox Marxism • Patriarchy • Philosophy • Political culture • Political Philosophy • political radicalism • Politician • Politics • post-structuralism • Protest • Radicalism (historical) • Raymond Aron • Regime • Republicanism • revolutionary struggle • Roland Barthes • Romanticism • Simone de Beauvoir • Situationist International • Socialism with a human face • Stalinism • state socialism • Struggle (TV series) • Subjectivity • Surrealism • terrorism • The Other Hand • Totalitarianism • Trade Union • Trotskyism • Vanguardism • Working Class • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8844-1 / 1400888441
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8844-3 / 9781400888443