Ben Mercer

Student Revolt in 1968 (eBook, PDF)

France, Italy and West Germany

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universitat Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over space, speech, sociology and cultural democratisation catalysed a dynamic protest movement within universities in the mid-1960s that expanded dramatically beyond the University in 1968. Differing visions of democratisation - mass access to education, the dissolution of high culture, the democratic control of the university - clashed and competed in a radical revaluation of the meaning of university education and democratic culture. The study also evaluates the most ambitious experiments in higher education in the 1960s - the 'Critical Universities' of West Berlin and Trento - which sought to establish democratic control of higher education before dissolving in the politics of social revolution, and offers a new and clear-sighted perspective on the 1960s

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108590143
• Artikelnr.: 66178019

Autorenporträt

Ben Mercer is a former rugby player turned writer. His rugby career took him from the UK to Australia, back to the UK and then on to France where he spent 4 years at Stade Rouennais before hanging up his boots.Despite his seemingly monomaniacal interest in rugby, Ben took the time to get an English degree from Newcastle University and reading was his first love, predating his sporting endeavours. He likes to consider himself a scholar athlete, but this could be really wishful thinking.Fringes was his first book. It became a #1 Amazon Bestseller and was nominated for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020. His second book Our Race, a collaboration with the Great Britain 4x100m team from Athens 2004 and author Trystan Bevan, is out now.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: history, myth and memory of 1968
Part I. Education and Culture: 1. The 'devouring monster': the university in the 1960s
2. 'New managerial class' or 'social doctor'? The ambiguities of sociology
3. 'Books for all': the democratisation of high culture
4. 'Knowledge is over': the intellectual politics of 1968
Part II. The Politics of Revolt: 5. 'The space of autonomy must be created': the politics of democracy
6. 'We represent nothing': the crisis of representation
7. 'We began to talk': the seizure of speech
Part III. Crisis of the University: 8. 'Question, doubt and criticise': free speech at the Free University
9. 'Student power': Vietnam at Trento
10. 'An asylum for delinquents': the space of revolt at Nanterre
11. 'A golden ghetto': the Critical University.