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#163 - May, 1968: An Intellectual and Political History of the Paris Student Revolt, Sexual Liberation, Street Philosophy, Alain Badiou, Feminism, Simon Critchley, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Zizek
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Write-up on the May 68 barricades:
https://jacobin.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was
The original recording was made in late April 2008 by the BBC.
Chapters
(00:00:00) Casablanca Intro
(00:06:39) 1) The Year of Revolutions: 1968
(00:48:43) 2) Philosophy in the Streets
References and Keywords
Charles de Gaulle, Joseph Stalin, CGT (Trade Union Confédération Générale du Travail), Women's Liberation, Birth Control Pill, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Lacan, Guy Debord and the Situationists, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, David Cunningham (Radical Philosophy), Simon Critchley, "Boredom is counterrevolutionary", École Normale Supérieure, Henri Bergson, Structuralism, Jacques Rancière, Claude Levi-Strauss, Deconstruction.
Books:
The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
The Order of Things - Michel Foucault
The Ends of Man - Jacques Derrida
Écrits (Writings) - Jacques Lacan
Reading Capital - Louis Althusser