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A Revolution of Perception?
Consequences and Echoes of 1968
Edited by Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
216 pages, 16 illus., 1 table, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-379-6 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (August 2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-380-2 eBook
Reviews
“Taken together, the volume’s 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
Description
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 traditional structures of institutional authority and criticized the basic assumptions 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.
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Professor of Contemporary History at Bielefeld University, is an associated member of the Centre de Sociologie Européenne (CSE/EHESS-Paris). She was visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris, 1999-2000 as well at St Antony’s College, Oxford, 2008-2009. Her main publications include 1968. Eine Zeitreise (Suhrkamp 2008).