When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968

by Feenberg, Andrew; Freedman, Jim; Kellner, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780791449660
• ISBN10: 0791449661
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Andrew Feenberg is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii
Foreword	xv
Douglas Kellner
Preface	xxi
Abbreviations	xxiii
One What Happened in May: A Chronicle	1	(68)
Andrew Feenberg
Jim Freedman
Students versus Society	3	(30)
La Phase Nanterroise	3	(8)
Friday Red I	11	(2)
The Concept of Cobblestones	13	(3)
The Long Trek and a Short Truce	16	(2)
The Grand Deception	18	(2)
Friday Red II	20	(7)
Monday, May 13	27	(6)
Society Versus the State	33	(24)
From the Sorbonne to Renault---Students and Workers	33	(3)
A La Sorbonne	36	(4)
Au Theatre de I'Odeon	40	(1)
A La Television	41	(2)
The Government	43	(4)
Triangle of Contention	47	(3)
Friday Red III	50	(4)
De Gaulle or Not de Gaulle	54	(3)
The Last Act	57	(12)
Workers Versus Negotiations	57	(1)
The Gaullist Gap	58	(2)
CGT and Communists Re-Revolutionize	60	(1)
The Return of Cohn-Bendit	61	(1)
The End of May	62	(4)
The Aftermath	66	(3)
Documents of the May Movement	69	(116)
Andrew Feenderg
Introduction	71	(2)
Technocracy and Student Revolt	73	(20)
The Texts	77	(4)
The Amnesty of Blinded Eyes	81	(6)
Address to All Workers	87	(2)
Join the Revolutionary Commune of the Imagination	89	(4)
In the Service of the People	93	(30)
The Texts	99	(1)
The ``In-House'' Strike at the Ministry of Urban Affairs	100	(6)
Research Bureause: Wall-To-Wall Carpeting and Revolution	106	(6)
Journal of a Neighborhood Action Committee	112	(11)
The Worker-Student Alliance	123	(24)
The Texts	128	(1)
The Students at Flins	128	(11)
The People's Studio	139	(8)
Self-Management: Strategy and Goal	147	(38)
The Texts	151	(1)
The Revolutionary Action Committee of the Sorbonne	152	(16)
The University as a Red Base	168	(3)
Nantes: A Whole Town Discovers the Power of the People	171	(6)
From Roadblocks to Self-Defense	177	(8)
Bibliography	185	(4)
Index	189