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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 episode artwork

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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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Help support the show, get access to exclusive episodes, and keep the podcast ad-free forever: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreon 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

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