From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought »

Julian Bourg is assistant professor of history, Bucknell University, and editor of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France.

Acknowledgments     vii
Abbreviations     xi
Introduction     3
Cobblestone Beaches: Normative Contradictions of the May Revolt     19
The Sabre and the Keyhole: French Maoism, Violence, and Prisoner Dignity
A Press Conference     45
Violence and the Gauche proletarienne     51
The President's Man and the State's Thumb     61
Popular Justice and Incarcerated Leftists     68
The Groupe d'information sur les prisons     79
These Modern Bastilles     96
Spinoza on Prozac: From Institutional Psychotherapy to the Philosophy of Desire
Anti-Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Desire     105
Anti-Oedipus: Redux and Reception, Ethics and Origins     112
Institutional Psychotherapy and the La Borde Psychiatric Clinic     125
Felix Guattari's Devolution     138
Gilles Deleuze's Spinozist Ethics     144
Schizophrenia and Fascism     159
Craziness Is a Dead End     174
"Your Sexual Revolution Is Not Ours": French Feminist "Moralism" and the Limits of Desire
Gender and '68: Tensions from the Start     179
Guy Hocquenghem's Dark Encounter with Feminism     187
Feminism, Law, Rape, and Leftist Male Reaction     193
Boy Trouble: French PedophiliacDiscourse of the 1970s     204
Desire Has Its Limits     219
When All Bets Are Off: Ethical Jansenism and the New Philosophers
The Main Event     227
Between the Union of the Left and Jansenism     247
Maurice Clavel     261
The Angel in the World     276
The Dialectic by the Side of the Road     289
John Locke Was Not French, or The Varieties of Ethical Experience     302
Conclusion     334
Notes     349
Bibliography     409
Index     449