Mercer Student Revolt in 1968

France, Italy and West Germany
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-59014-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
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Reihe: New Studies in European History

Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universität Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over space, speech, sociology and cultural democratisation catalysed a dynamic protest movement within universities in the mid-1960s that expanded dramatically beyond the University in 1968. Differing visions of democratisation - mass access to education, the dissolution of high culture, the democratic control of the university - clashed and competed in a radical revaluation of the meaning of university education and democratic culture. The study also evaluates the most ambitious experiments in higher education in the 1960s - the 'Critical Universities' of West Berlin and Trento - which sought to establish democratic control of higher education before dissolving in the politics of social revolution, and offers a new and clear-sighted perspective on the 1960s

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mercer, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: history, myth and memory of 1968; Part I. Education and Culture: 1. The 'devouring monster': the university in the 1960s; 2. 'New managerial class' or 'social doctor'? The ambiguities of sociology; 3. 'Books for all': the democratisation of high culture; 4. 'Knowledge is over': the intellectual politics of 1968; Part II. The Politics of Revolt: 5. 'The space of autonomy must be created': the politics of democracy; 6. 'We represent nothing': the crisis of representation; 7. 'We began to talk': the seizure of speech; Part III. Crisis of the University: 8. 'Question, doubt and criticise': free speech at the Free University; 9. 'Student power': Vietnam at Trento; 10. 'An asylum for delinquents': the space of revolt at Nanterre; 11. 'A golden ghetto': the Critical University.

Über Autor(innen)

Mercer, Ben
Ben Mercer is Lecturer in the School of History at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of numerous journal articles including in French Politics, Culture & Society, the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Journal of Modern History and a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914–1945 (2016).