From revolution to ethics Bourg, Julian
From revolution to ethics,
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Challenging the prevalent view that the 1960s did not have any lasting effect, From Revolution to Ethics demonstrates that intellectuals and activists turned to ethics as the touchstone for ...understanding interpersonal, institutional, and political dilemmas. In absorbing and scrupulously researched detail Bourg explores the developing ethical fascination as it emerged among student Maoists courting terrorism, anti-psychiatric celebrations of madness, feminists mobilizing against rape, and pundits and philosophers championing human rights.
Frederick Aldama’s The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors making films today. In this companion volume, ...Aldama enlists a corps of experts to analyze a majority of Rodriguez’s feature films, from his first break-out success El Mariachi in 1992 to Machete in 2010. The essays explore the formal and thematic features present in his films from the perspectives of industry (context, convention, and distribution), the film blueprint (auditory and visual ingredients), and consumption (ideal and real audiences). The authors illuminate the manifold ways in which Rodriguez’s films operate internally (plot, character, and event) and externally (audience perception, thought, and feeling). The volume is divided into three parts: “Matters of Mind and Media" includes essays that use psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology to shed light on how Rodriguez’s films complicate Latino identity, as well as how they succeed in remaking audiences’ preconceptions of the world. “Narrative Theory, Cognitive Science, and Sin City: A Case Study" offers tools and models of analysis for the study of Rodriguez’s film re-creation of a comic book (on which Frank Miller was credited as codirector). “Aesthetic and Ontological Border Crossings and Borderlands" considers how Rodriguez’s films innovatively critique fixed notions of Latino identity and experience, as well as open eyes to racial injustices. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how Rodriguez’s career offers critical insights into the filmmaking industry, the creative process, and the consuming and reception of contemporary film.
At 11 o´clock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the ...“Operation Danube”. Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dubček´s liberalization reforms was transformed from living reality into history. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for both the unity of the communist bloc and the establishment of the new Soviet foreign doctrine. This book brings the international context of the 1968 crisis in Czechoslovakia to the center of attention. It brought together experts from within as well as from without Central Europe with the hope of igniting, or, perhaps better, re-igniting an international discussion on the Prague spring, its origins, its unfolding, its aftermath, and, most importantly, the international context.
The volume’s contributors are: Ljubodarg Dimić, Jakub Drábik, Mihail Gruev, Slavomír Michálek, Miklós Mitrovits, Jackques Rupnik, Alexander Stykalin, Mirosław Szumiło, Michal Štefanský, and Virgiliu Tarau
In 1965, the Uruguayan student movement opposed the launch of a "program to improve science teaching" to be held at the University of the Republic (Udelar) by the Organization of American States ...(OAS). With the support of a group of teachers, mostly from the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying (FIA), representatives of the student order wrote an eloquent statement in rejection of said program, criticizing its low academic level and claiming that it was at odds with the objectives. general information of the institution. Since they referred to the role of the OAS in the subcontinent, anti-imperialism was a central component of their rhetoric, but the students emphasized the need to reconcile science policy and "national development" within the university. The firm stances of the students could not stop the OAS project, but their actions were decisive in strengthening the alliance they forged with teachers dedicated to the development of scientific research at the institution. They also facilitated the election of Oscar Maggiolo as rector in 1966 and the development in 1967 of an ambitious program to promote science and technology at the university. These facts suggest that the oppositional attitude of the student movement in the mid-sixties favored academic reform. However, the height of the protests in 1968 was a turning point in these controversies. From then on, in the face of growing repression and right-wing authoritarianism, most of the mobilized students put aside the debate on university reform and turned to radical political causes. The horizon of the revolution replaced trust in tertiary education institutions as engines of social change. This article analyzes these changing positions and the development of increasingly violent instances of protest in the period prior to the 1973 coup in Uruguay, which ended up curtailing this and other related debates.
El artículo que presentamos aborda las discusiones teóricas filosóficas y los acontecimientospolíticos que signaron la década de 1960 en Francia. Puntualmente, haremosalusión al modo en que se ...configuró el estructuralismo, la distancia respecto alexistencialismo y la fenomenología, especialmente en relación con el sujeto. Luego,trazaremos una cartografía que recorra los momentos nodales del acontecimiento deMayo de 1968, algunas de las claves de inteligibilidad en las que buscaremos recalary, finalmente, reponemos los efectos del movimiento político en la filosofía francesa.Entre los aspectos distintivos de Mayo de 1968 en Francia, se destaca la preguntapor el carácter revolucionario o no de dicho acontecimiento, las transformacionesefectivas, el lugar del intelectual, la crítica que enlaza el espíritu del movimiento deMayo con el despliegue neoliberal y el individualismo especialmente visible en lascostumbres sociales, en las formas del trabajo y de la organización política hacia ladécada de 1980.
On October 3, 1968, a military junta led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado took over the government of Peru. In striking contrast to the right-wing, pro–United States/anti-Communist military ...dictatorships of that era, however, Velasco’s “Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces" set in motion a left-leaning nationalist project aimed at radically transforming Peruvian society by eliminating social injustice, breaking the cycle of foreign domination, redistributing land and wealth, and placing the destiny of Peruvians into their own hands. Although short-lived, the Velasco regime did indeed have a transformative effect on Peru, the meaning and legacy of which are still subjects of intense debate. The Peculiar Revolution revisits this fascinating and idiosyncratic period of Latin American history. The book is organized into three sections that examine the era’s cultural politics, including not just developments directed by the Velasco regime but also those that it engendered but did not necessarily control; its specific policies and key institutions; and the local and regional dimensions of the social reforms it promoted. In a series of innovative chapters written by both prominent and rising historians, this volume illuminates the cultural dimensions of the revolutionary project and its legacies, the impact of structural reforms at the local level (including previously understudied areas of the country such as Piura, Chimbote, and the Amazonia), and the effects of state policies on ordinary citizens and labor and peasant organizations.
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