Hardback. New. A state of the art reassessment of the importance and consequences of the events associated with the year 1968 in Europe and in North America. Promises of 1968 goes beyond the East-West divide in the process of identifying the common features of the sixties. ISBN 6155053049 9786155053047 [GB]

ISBN10: 6155053049, ISBN13: 9786155053047, [publisher: Central European University Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is a state of the art reassessment of the significance and consequences of the events associated with the year 1968 in Europe and in North America. Since 1998, there hasn't been any collective, comparative and interdisciplinary effort to discuss 1968 in the light of both contemporary headways of scholarship and new evidence on this historical period. A significant departure from earlier approaches lies in the fact that the manuscript is constructed in unitary fashion, as it goes beyond the East-West divide, trying to identify the common features of the sixties. The latter are analyzed as simultaneously global and local developments.The main problems addressed by the contributors of this volume are: the sixties as a generational clash; the redefinition of the political as a consequence of the ideological challenges posed to the status-quo by the sixty-eighters; the role of Utopia and the de-radicalization of intellectuals; the challenges to imperialism (Soviet/American); the cultural revolution of the sixties; the crisis of 'really existing socialism' and the failure of 'socialism with a human face'; the gradual departure from the Yalta-system; the development of a culture of human rights and the project of a global civil society; the situation of 1968 within the general ...
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