Description
This lively intellectual history explores the turbulent legacy of France’s 1960s, from the upheavals of May 1968 to the debates that reshaped politics, culture, and public life. It traces the encounters between French thinkers and American radicalism, revealing how admiration, misunderstanding, and ideological rivalry influenced the era’s most consequential movements. Alongside a searching critique of left-wing excesses and political folly, the book offers a spirited defense of the decade’s ideals of freedom, emancipation, and cultural renewal. Richly researched and sharply argued, it illuminates the enduring tensions between revolutionary promise and historical reality.
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paperback
Princeton University Press
Published Mar 25, 2012
408 pages
ISBN: 9780691154343
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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