Biblioteca / 1980-1989
Arthur Hirsh. The French New Left. An Intellectual History from Sartre to Gorz.
Boston: South End Press, 1981.
xiii, 253 páginas.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I
Intellectual Origins of the French New Left
Introduction
1 – The Leftist Critique of Marxism in Postwar France
Traditional Marxism in Postwar France
Sources of Renewal
The New Themes
2 – Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir: The Existentialist Challenge
Introduction: Sartre’s Rise to Prominence
Sartre’s Existentialist Social Theory
Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism and Feminism
Les Temps Modernes and Existentialist Politics
Sartre and the Origins of the French New Left
3 – Sartre’s Critique of Marxism
Introduction: Marxism and Existentialism
Mediations and the Progressive-Regressive Method
The Dialectic
A Social Ontology of Alienation
Social Being: Series and Groups
The Critique and New Left Social Theory
4 – Lefebvre and French Revisionism: Marxists Question Marxism
Introduction
Arguments: Marxism in Question
Henri Lefebvre: Communist Philosopher
The Re-thinking of Marx
The Critique of Everyday Life
Lefebvre and the French New Left
5 – Castoriadis and Socialisme ou Barbarie: The Gauchiste Rejection of Marxism
Introduction
Overview
The Critique of Bureaucracy
Self-Management
The Rejection of Marxism
Part II
May 1968
6 – From Origins to Culmination
May 1968: New Left Apocalypse
Sartre, Lefebvre, Castoriadis and May 1968
Limitations of New Left Social Theory 148
May 1968: The Turning Point
Part III
Beyond May 1968: The Legacy of the French New Left
7 – Althusser and the Resurgence of Structuralist-Marxism
Introduction
Althusser’s Problematic
Theoretical Anti-Humanism
Althusser and the PCF
Althusser’s Stalinism
8 – Eurocommunism and the Crisis of Marxism
Introduction: The Rise of Eurocommunism
Poulantzas and the Theory of Eurocommunism
The New Philosophers
The Crisis of Marxism
9 – The New Social Movements of the 1970s
Self-management
Simone de Beauvoir and the New French Feminism
Political Ecology and the “Greening” of André Gorz
Epilogue: Marxism and Autonomous Society
Bibliography