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. It explores the period's central influence within theoretical discourse, tracing the development of 'explanations' for...
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 imme...
Nothing says more about a culture than the way it responds to deeply traumatic events. The Reign of Terror, America's Civil War, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Kennedy assassination, September 11th-watershed moments such as these can be rich sounding boards for the cultural historian patient enough to tease out the traumatic event's complex cultural resonances. This book is about one such moment in the history of modern France. The so-called Terrible Year began with the French army's crushing defeat at Sedan and the fall of the Second Empire in September of 1870, followed by the...
Nothing says more about a culture than the way it responds to deeply traumatic events. The Reign of Terror, America's Civil War, the Holocaust, Hirosh...
