Title Student revolt in 1968 : France, Italy and West Germany / Ben Mercer

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

Click on the following:
Cambridge Core

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 302 pages) Series New studies in European history New studies in European history. Contents Introduction: history, myth and memory of 1968 -- Part I Education and culture -- The 'devouring monster': the university in the 1960s -- 'New managerial class' or 'social doctor'?: the ambiguities of sociology -- 'Books for all': the democratisation of high culture -- 'Knowledge is over': the intellectual politics of 1968 -- Part II The politics of revolt -- 'The space of autonomy must be created': the politics of democracy -- 'We represent nothing': the crisis of representation -- 'We began to talk': the seizure of speech -- Part III Crisis of the university -- 'Question, doubt and criticise': free speech at the free university -- 'Student power': Vietnam at Trento -- 'An asylum for delinquents': the space of revolt at nanterre -- 'A golden ghetto': the critical university -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index Summary "Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Free University of 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 27, 2019) Subject Université de Paris X: Nanterre -- History -- 20th century Università degli studi di Trento -- History -- 20th century Freie Universität Berlin -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Freie Universität Berlin fast Università degli studi di Trento fast Université de Paris X: Nanterre fast Subject Student movements -- France -- History -- 20th century Student movements -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Student movements -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century College students -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 20th century College students -- Political activity -- Italy -- History -- 20th century College students -- Political activity -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century College students -- Political activity Student movements France Germany (West) Italy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019037028 ISBN 9781108696111 1108696112

  Permalink