May '68. Video.

 

May ‘68. Debate. 

 

1. Students make comparisons: poor suburbs. 

2. The university is unable to affect society. 

3. Looking for a radical change in society. 

4. Protesters are not touched (they are rich, white, 

and French: they are not Algerians). 

5. A European movement against capitalism. 

6. Bourgeois dictatorship: Vive le socialisme!

An anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement.

All the leftists united: Trotskyists, Maoists, Situationists, 

Anarchists.

7. The government does not employ full military force.

8. May 13, 1968: Workers respond massively. 

9. Oblique confrontation. 

10. Students reject expertise and hierarchy. 

11. Everything is put into question.

12. A new civilization. 

13. A movement of the intelligentsia. 

14. No Robespierre, no Trotsky. Just a happening.

15. An open-ended paralysis. 

16. Putting revolution into question.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12: “De Gaulle’s Golden Decade Ends in Tragicomedy.”

Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:

 

1. De Gaulle as the dominant French state-man of the 20th century. 

2. De Gaulle: a traditionalist, a conservative, a republican. 

3. The movement towards presidentialism (203). 

4. Depoliticize the government. Appointing technocrats. 

5. The problem of Algeria. Referendum: the colonies chose to remain within the Community (except for Guinea).

6. Terrorist attacks (FLN). 

7. The OAS. Massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris (1961). 

8. EEC: 1958. 

9. The “Trente glorieuses”. Reforms (208-209). 

10. The three “international realities” perceived by De Gaulle. 

11. André Malraux as first minister of culture (212); and the cultural revolution of the 60s (213). 

12. Literature (214). Philosophy, between structuralism and Marxism (215-216). 

13. May ‘68. No coherent political project. 

Sartre - Video

 

Chapter 10

 Chapter 10: “The Second World War: Collaboration and Resistance.”

Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:

1. Terms of the armistice between France and Germany (166-167). 
2. Political thinking of Pétain and Laval. 
3. Traditionalist ideas of Pétain (169). 
4. The main characteristics of Vichy’s government. The new motto. Racism and anti-communism. 
5. The role of De Gaulle in the organization of the resistance. 
6. Systematic deportation of Jews (176-179).
7. Vichy’s government as one of the French taboos (180-182). 
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Louis XVI

 A song (in Spanish) about Louis XVI. Maybe you can take a look at the lyrics with a dictionary. 

Foucault - Panopticon

 

Bernard Stiegler - INTERNATION - Complete book.

 The book wrtitten by Stiegler with the collective INTERNATION can be found following this LINK.