A Revolution of Perception Consequences and Echoes of 1968 [Hardcover]

The year 1968 marked the climax of protests that simultaneously captured most industrialized Western countries. The protesters challenged the institutions of Western democracies, confronting powerful, established parties and groups with an opposing force and public presence that negated tra?ditional structures of institutional authority and criticized the basic assump?tions of the post-war order. Exploring the effects the protest movement of 1968 had on the political, social, and symbolic order of the societies they called into question, this volume focuses on the consequences and echoes of 1968 from different perspectives, including history, sociology, and linguistics.

Taken together, the volumes articles contribute new scholarship to the research on 1968. Its insightful analyses will prove useful for a variety of disciplines including but not limited to history, politics, linguistics, feminist studies, European Studies, Jewish Studies, media, and communication studies.? Canadian Journal of History

Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Professor of Contemporary History at Bielefeld University, is an associated member of the Centre de Sociologie Europ?enne (CSE/EHESS-Paris). She was visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris, 1999-2000 as well at St Antonys College, Oxford, 2008-2009. Her main publications include1968. Eine Zeitreise(Suhrkamp 2008).

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Introduction
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey

PART I: RE-LINKING EUROPE AND THE 'THIRD WORLD

Chapter 1.Re-Thinking the Writers Role: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Cuba or A Story of Self-Censorship
Henning Marmulla

Chapter 2.Global Dimensions of Conflict and Co-operation. Public Protest and the Quest for Transnational Solidarity in Britain, 1968-1973
Steffen Bruendel

Chapter 3.